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People are playing Pokemon Go while behind the wheel — and then tweeting about it. And causing crashes. Immersive games like this can be even more dangerous than texting, researchers say.

Young American adults own smartphones at a higher rate than any other age group. Researchers from Duke University wanted to see if capitalizing on that…

More than a third of U.S. adults turn to the Internet for help diagnosing their illnesses themselves. But how trustworthy are the results?

Researchers at University of California, San Francisco, are looking to an app for help in collecting health information from people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and queer.

A new accessibility app called Compeer is currently being beta tested and may soon be able to help those with disabilities navigate cities more easily.…

This story was provided to Sound Medicine by Stateline, an initiative of the Pew Charitable Trusts.When 911 dispatchers get a call that someone has…