Change4Life Launches Food Tracker App in £6.3m Campaign

Change4Life Launches Food Tracker App in £6.3m Campaign

Change4Life has launched a food tracker app in its annual January health push, helping parents keep an eye on kids’ salt, sugar and fat intake. Be Food Smart builds on Public Health England’s sugar tracking app in 2016. The latter was a runaway success with more than two million downloads. It works in a similar […]

AlcoChange: The new app aimed at keeping heavy drinkers out of the pub

AlcoChange: The new app aimed at keeping heavy drinkers out of the pub

A smartphone app that “nudges” patients with alcohol-related liver disease away from their favouritedrinking dens and off-licences is being trialled by a London hospital. Sixty patients whose drinking has resulted in them being admitted to a ward at the Royal Free hospital, Hampstead, will be enrolled on the scheme. The AlcoChange app uses GPS technology […]

Hero Condoms takes to Tinder to match users with STIs

Hero Condoms takes to Tinder to match users with STIs

Australian Tinder users have been ‘swiping right’ to a series of personified STIs as part of a campaign by condom brand Hero. From ‘Johnorrhoea’ to ‘Sydphilis’ and ‘Herpeia’, a series of 10 fake profiles named after the diseases have been appearing as potential date options for singles on the platform in a bid to highlight the unpleasant side-effects […]