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Children's Mental Health Week: Growing up in the COVID-19 transformational era

By Sara Mageit 08:13 am February 2, 2021

A video of a toddler born in the year 2020 pressing inanimate objects in the hope of dispensing hand sanitizer recently went viral. Although bizarre, this is emblematic of the current hyper-precautionary health climate that Generation Alpha will be growing up in. The WHO's hygiene campaign, 'Save Lives: Clean your Hands' to reduce COVID-19 infections has galvanised even the youngest in our...

Gaming for health: How tech can help young people come to terms with illness

By Tammy Lovell 04:32 am March 2, 2020

Update: HIMSS & Health 2.0 European Digital Event (7-11 September 2020). When Corporation Pop managing director Dom Raban’s 13-year-old daughter was diagnosed with Ewing’s sarcoma, he was shocked by the lack of information for children about the condition. “The hospital care she got was really good, but she had virtually no information about the people she would meet, the environment she...