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Mobile phone services help smokers quit

Support for quitting smoking via text and video messages can help smokers kick the habit according to a new Cochrane systematic review. The authors of the review found that people were more likely to stay away from cigarettes ...

Addiction created Nov 13, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

More pediatric hospitalists using text messaging to communicate

More pediatric hospital physicians are communicating through cell phone text messaging, rather than the traditional pager method, according to research presented Oct. 21 at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) National ...

Pediatrics created Oct 21, 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

Text messages help patients with long term conditions stick to their meds

Text message prompts can help patients living with long term conditions stick to their treatment programmes - at least in the short term - indicates a review of the available evidence, published online in the Journal of th ...

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

Flu vaccination reminder via text messaging improves rate of vaccination among low-income children

A text messaging intervention with education-related messages sent to parents increased influenza vaccination coverage compared with usual care in a traditionally hard-to-reach, low-income, urban, minority population of children ...

Health created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cyberbullying may call for new prevention tactics

(HealthDay) -- Cyberbullying is different than traditional bullying, and anti-bullying programs need to use specific measures to combat online aggression, a new Canadian study says.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A woman's main focus moves off her partner once grandchildren arrive

A new study suggests that a woman's most intense relationship in her 20s is with a member of the opposite sex, but after the age of 45 this relationship shifts to a much younger female who is likely to be ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 20, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Phone calls back evolutionary theories of gender

Women speak to their male partners less often as they grow older and turn their attention to a younger generation, according to an unusual study Thursday that tracked nearly two billion phone calls and text ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Apr 19, 2012 | popularity 3.7 / 5 (3) | 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

Text messages help HIV patients stick to antiretroviral drug therapy

Mobile phones could play a valuable role in helping HIV patients to take their medication every day, according to a new Cochrane Systematic Review. The researchers found that patients were less likely to miss doses if they ...

HIV & AIDS created Mar 13, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How text messaging can help control malaria

In this week's PLoS Medicine, Dejan Zurovac and colleagues from the Kenya Medical Research Institute/Wellcome Trust Research Program, Nairobi, Kenya discuss six areas where text messaging could improve the delivery of hea ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Texting affects ability to interpret words

(Medical Xpress) -- Research designed to understand the effect of text messaging on language found that texting has a negative impact on people's linguistic ability to interpret and accept words.

Psychology & Psychiatry created Feb 20, 2012 | popularity 2.7 / 5 (11) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Texting has rewired your brain

(Medical Xpress) -- Do you know what the numbers 5683 and 3327 mean? According to a recent study, if you are a person who frequently sends text messages, your brain knows what these numbers mean and is unconsciously influencing ...

Psychology & Psychiatry created Sep 28, 2011 | popularity 2.3 / 5 (6) | comments 9 | with audio podcast report