The App Store Is Full Of Bogus Health Apps
Clay Dillow
at 04:54 AM Nov 15 2012
iPhone 4
John Mahoney

The App Store is filled with health apps and most of them are garbage. At least, that seems to be the overarching sentiment running throughout the Washington Post's extensive examination of bogus health-related apps now cluttering both the iTunes App Store and Google Play.

Key statistic: "Of the 331 therapeutic apps, nearly 43 percent relied on cellphone sound for treatments. Another dozen used the light of the cellphone, and two others used phone vibrations. Scientists say none of these methods could possibly work for the conditions in question". You don't say. 

[Washington Post]

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