In a recent editorial, researchers encouraged the normalization of medical emoji across the health care community, with the intent of providing accessible and effective means of communication to ...

That started with a syringe and pill in 2016 and has since expanded to some 30 emoji representing illness, body parts and organs, healthcare workers, medicines, tools, wheelchairs, and canes.

The most common symbol found was the thumbs-up, followed by a smiling face and the praying icon. While practitioners were more likely to send emoji than other care team members, internal medicine ...

The medical world needs more emoji, according to Shuhan He, an emergency medicine physician who helped propose the anatomical heart and lungs emoji. Now, He and others have laid out the case for ...

The Unicode Consortium, a.k.a. the emoji overlords, have a form for submitting new emoji proposals. But this didn’t quite fit the bill. Samsung and Google’s interpolations of the mask emoji aren’t too ...

Apple has quietly updated its “Face with Medical Mask” emoji with friendlier eyes, eyebrows, and rosy cheeks. It appears to be Apple’s “Smiling Face” emoji, with a mask on top.