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The You Docs:
We’re big fans of those clever little
programs that convert your smartphone or
tablet into a stress reliever, workout buddy,
healthy eating log, even a personal assistant
that tracks your blood pressure, blood sugar,
vision, sleep and a lot more. But with 40,000-
plus apps to choose from, how do you know
where to start?
Good question. App stores don’t have
authoritative medical reviewers — yet — to
make sure health apps live up to their claims.
And apps are big business ($1.4 billion by the
end of this year!), and that means big hype.
Fortunately, researchers are starting to study
health-related apps; a medical journal devoted
to mHealth (that’s “mobile health”) just
started up. And you may have seen the recent
headlines about the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration’s interest in putting
medical-app developers through the same
approval process as medical devices
(pacemakers and coronary stents, for example).


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