Attacks on breastfeeding mothers speak to a far bigger online problem
Rebecca Schiller: The abuse generated by a picture of a student breastfeeding at her graduation is an indication of the scale of woman-shaming on the web
Apple unveils move towards health and home in new iPhone software
Software will gather and store health-related data and offer integrated control for 'smart home' devices like lighting
A carbon fibre e-bike: built for Batman
Karl Mathiesen: It's cool, futuristic and packs in serious gadgetry – with a matching price tag, but is it a smart city bike?
Desperate to get pregnant? There’s an app for that
Smartphone technology combined with wearable temperature sensors has given hope to couples diagnosed with unexplained infertility, writes Catherine de Lange
LeapFrog activity tracker for kids soon to hit the shelves
LeapFrog makes a game out of physical activity, with a talking Tamagotchi-style pet that can be strapped to the wrist. By Samuel Gibbs
Unfitbit: When fitness tracking goes wrong
From quantified smug to quantified mug, here is a cautionary tale of when fitness gadgets compete with chips, stress and cider. By Stuart Dredge
Haircut, weight, clothes, personal appearance … your boss is watching you
Research among 1,000 British executives also reveals that when they get home many turn the spotlight on themselves
Facebook buys fitness-tracking app Moves
The app will keep running (and walking) as a standalone service for now, but marks a significant move for the social network into health data. By Stuart Dredge and Alex Hern
Innovations for disease control
To mark World Health Day, we asked our community to send in innovations
they had seen that aim to tackle vector-borne diseases. Here are our
favourites
Crowdsourced Parkinson’s research: engaging people, opening up science
Dr Max Little explains the role technology is playing in crowdsourcing research, to help improve the diagnosis and treatment management for those affected by Parkinson's Patient Voice Analysis project is using technology to crowdsource