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Twitter Bio:: Publisher, HealthNewsReview.org and Health News Watchdog blog.
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There's no app for that: health apps that don't work

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Posted by Gary Schwitzer in Business of health, Health care journalism A report by The New England Center for Investigative Reporting - published by the Washington Post – is headlined, “Many health apps are based on flimsy science at best, and they often do not work.”“When the iTunes store began offering apps that used cellphone light to cure acne, federal investigators knew that hucksters had found a new spot in cyberspace.“We realized this could be a medium for mischief,” said James Prunty, a Federal Trade Commission attorney who helped pursue the government’s only cases against health-app developers last