Most of us are constantly on our phones. Whether we are checking our texts or our many social media platforms, it seems that we always have our phones in our hands. Well, the brilliant minds at YTH (Youth, Tech, Health) […]
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Can health care providers and patients use texting to promote more consistent birth control use? Yes, they can! Clinicians and public health advocates have discovered something interesting: phone calls, email and snail mail just don’t seem to cut…
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Apple recently came out with the iPhone 6 and the iOS 8 operating system. One new feature of the operating system is Apple’s HealthKit, a health application which gathers health and wellness data from apps made by other companies. The […]
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“Keep calm and trust youth innovation.” That’s what Jamia Wilson, YTH Executive Director, said at the opening plenary of the YTH (youth + tech + health) Live Conference in San Francisco earlier this month. And while I was trying hard […]
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Planned Parenthood has come out with a series of new apps, designed to educate young people about sexual health and sexuality topics. (We recently blogged about their Been There, Done That app.) I took a look at their My Birth […]
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Imagine listening to people speak passionately about why they care about teen sexual health and what they are doing to have an impact on it. That’s the experience I had earlier this week at Sex::Tech, the 5th annual conference on […]
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Our cell phones can help us with everything from online banking to finding a restaurant in a new city. But when I heard about the latest task our mobile phones could be taking on, even I, an avid iPhone user, […]
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