A mental health app can serve multiple purposes: “If you’re already in therapy, the right app can really enhance learning or reinforce skills from therapy,” says Chu Hui Cha, PhD, a clinical ...

Some apps are general wellness tools, while others may function more like medical devices. This distinction matters when considering regulation and data privacy. Health and wellness apps can help you ...

There are thousands of mental health apps available on the app market, offering services including meditation, mood tracking, and counseling, among others. You would think such “health” and ...

The creators of Fitbit have even bigger ambitions in the health space. Those ambitions are being funneled into the just announced company Luffu, which aims to create “an intelligent family care system ...

A cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) app has been found to significantly prevent increases in depression in young people who are at high risk -- and could be implemented as a cost effective public ...

Mikael Klintman does not work for, consult, own shares in or receive funding from any company or organization that would benefit from this article, and has disclosed no relevant affiliations beyond ...

Several mental health mobile apps with millions of downloads on Google Play contain security vulnerabilities that could expose users’ sensitive medical information. In one of the apps, security ...