News tagged with health messages


Students' diet and physical activity improve with parent communications

College students eat more fruits and vegetables and exercise more on days when they communicate more with their parents, according to researchers at Penn State.

Health created May 16, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A text message a day keeps the asthma attack away

(Medical Xpress)—Simply sending children with asthma a text message each day asking about their symptoms and providing knowledge about their condition can lead to improved health outcomes. In a study by ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 30, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain cell signal network genes linked to schizophrenia risk in families

New genetic factors predisposing to schizophrenia have been uncovered in five families with several affected relatives. The psychiatric disorder can disrupt thinking, feeling, and acting, and blur the border ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 03, 2013 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Is too much e-communication swamping doctors?

(HealthDay)—As hospitals increasingly forgo pen and paper in favor of "e-records," new research suggests the move is leaving many doctors struggling in a sea of daily communications.

Health created Mar 04, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Study explores promoting teen health via text message

(Medical Xpress)—A study of 177 teenagers looks at whether teens are open to receiving text messages about health and what kind of information those messages should contain.

Health created Jan 18, 2013 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Exercise can extend your life by as much as five years, researchers find

Adults who include at least 150 minutes of physical activity in their routines each week live longer than those who don't, finds a new study in the American Journal of Preventive Medicine. Promoting the ye ...

Health created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study of text messaging service shows participants prepared for motherhood

Following last week's mHealth Summit, the largest event of its kind where leaders focus on how wireless technology can improve health outcomes, text4baby announced results from the first randomized evaluation of its service. ...

Health created Dec 10, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists discover master regulator of skin development

The surface of your skin, called the epidermis, is a complex mixture of many different cell types—each with a very specific job. The production, or differentiation, of such a sophisticated tissue requires an immense amount ...

Medical research created Dec 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early 50s may be key time to reach baby boomers with health messages

For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak coming near age 65, according to a new study.

Health created Nov 15, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Public health messages can influence infectious disease stigmas

Crafting public health messages about a disease may create stigmas that influence how likely people are to endorse certain interventions, such as isolating infected persons, forcing treatment on them and mapping their location, ...

Health created Oct 01, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Retweeted health messages may not be what the patient ordered

(Medical Xpress)—People are more likely to trust health messages tweeted by doctors who have a lot of followers, but not the messages they retweet, according to researchers.

Health created Sep 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cambodians fight malaria with the push of a button

Cambodian villagers armed with a little medical know-how—and their mobile telephones—are the nation's new foot soldiers in the fight against drug-resistant malaria.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Sierra Leone cholera epidemic claims 255 lives, says UN

The cholera epidemic in Sierra Leone, the worst oubreak of the waterborne disease there in 15 years, has now claimed 255 lives, the World Health Organization (WHO) said Tuesday.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Sep 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Mobile phones help bolster Uganda's fight against HIV

Stella Nayiga clutches her mobile phone as she describes the messages that she received punctually every morning and evening for over a year, reminding her to take her antiretroviral (ARV) drugs regularly.

HIV & AIDS created Jul 25, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

uok? Text messages - even automated ones - can soothe the disconnected soul

(Medical Xpress) -- Text messaging often gets a bad rap for contributing to illiteracy and high-risk behavior such as reckless driving. But a social welfare professor at the University of California, Berkeley, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0