Demographic Health

LAS VEGAS—A head-worn smell generator. Cameras mounted on hummingbird feeders. A plane mask that covers your mouth for quiet phone calls at 30,000 feet. The annual tech confab in Las Vegas…

Trying to have a baby? Trying not to have a baby? There’s now a smartwatch for that—and a smart ring, too.The new Apple Watch Series 8 ($399 and up) and Ultra ($799), as well as the…

Michelle Hirschboeck was looking for a way to keep track of her husband, Paul, who has dementia. She settled on something not intended for people: AirTags.Caregivers have turned to…

Naomi Sanders tried to set up her TikTok account so she wouldn’t see videos about eating disorders, but she says they’re impossible to avoid.“I still see posts related to eating disorders on…

Social-media companies that operate in California will have to consider the health and well-being of children under a first-of-its-kind bill signed into law Thursday by Gov.…

A group of workers at Google parent Alphabet Inc. GOOG -0.07% has asked the company to stop collecting data on…

Teenage girls across the globe have been showing up at doctors’ offices with tics—physical jerking movements and verbal outbursts—since the start of the pandemic.Movement-disorder doctors…

When Teiranni Kidd walked into Springhill Medical Center on July 16, 2019, to have her baby, she had no idea the Alabama hospital was deep in the midst of a ransomware attack.For nearly…