Digital tech can remove healthcare barriers in the transgender community
Trans Day of Visibility gives us a chance to reflect on the barriers faced by many trans people and the role digital tools can play in addressing them.
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How digital services can define and address inequities in sexual health
In a piece for Digital Health, Dr Vanessa Apea from Preventx, looks into how digital services can define and address inequities in sexual health.
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Cumbria Sexual Health Service to offer online booking for patients
Cumbria Sexual Health Service (CSHS) is to offer patients the ability to book appointments and order STI self-testing kits online.
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Dr Google ‘diagnoses’ 100m health concerns as GP wait times rise
More people are turning to Google to self-diagnose their boo-boos and ailments, with Londoners proving the biggest ‘cyberchondriacs’.
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Swedish authorities complete assessment of Natural Cycles app
Natural Cycles was referred to Sweden’s Medical Products Agency after a hospital discovered a number of unwanted pregnancies among women who relied on it.
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Natural Cycles Facebook ad banned by Advertising Standards Agency
ASA revealed it received three complaints which challenged the claim that Natural Cycles is a ‘highly accurate contraceptive app’.
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Natural Cycles app ‘reported to Swedish authorities after 37 unwanted pregnancies’
Natural Cycles, a birth control app, has reportedly been referred to authorities in Sweden after a hospital discovered a number of cases of unwanted pregnancies among women who relied on the app as a method of contraception.
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EHI Awards 2014: Blithe spirit
Dean Street Express emerged as the overall winner of the EHI Awards 2014 for its fully automated sexual health service that sends out results by SMS. Lyn Whitfield reports.
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