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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Smartphone apps now include a variety of self-management tools for weight loss, physical activity, and chronic diseases such as hypertension and diabetes. In the developing world, "mHealth projects are launching at an exponential rate," declared a recent issue of Johns Hopkins Public Health Magazine.

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What RFK Jr. Isn’t Talking About: How To Make Vaccines Safer

Physician's Weekly

At the time they were getting out of the vaccine business, finding it less risky and more profitable to produce drugs for chronic diseases. He told Science magazine that investigating vaccine side effects was a delicate business when public health leaders were urging everyone to get their shots. The current U.S.