A new text messaging program has been launched to help men with advanced prostate cancer as they undergo chemotherapy. PROST8CARE is the work of Mobile Commons, a New York-based developer of mobile ...

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvania partnered with Voxiva to launch two text message-based services for their Medicaid benefit plan members. Voxiva also announced this week that more than ...

Text messaging shows promise for assessing smoking status and identifying lung cancer screening eligibility, particularly among middle-aged, educated individuals with medium or high income. However, a ...

Text messages and other online feedback can help prevent obesity in very young children, a new study demonstrates. Kids had a healthier weight-for-height growth curve during their first two years if ...

BOSTON - A text messaging program could help teens walk away from e-cigarettes. E-cigarettes, which are highly addictive, are the most common tobacco products used by teens. In fact, up to 10% of high ...

Only 7% of kids whose parents got the texts became obese by age 2, compared with nearly 13% who only got counseling in a clinic MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Text messages and other online ...

A study at four Pittsburgh-area UPMC hospitals reveals a text message-based intervention can help promote healthy alcohol consumption practices in young adults. Researchers divided the study ...

The University of Chicago Medicine saw improvements in gylcemic control, user satisfaction and resource utilization after implementing a text message-based monitoring program for the organization’s ...