988 mental health hotline back in business after daylong outage
A national hotline that people can call in a mental health emergency went down for a day before it was restored late Thursday.
Dec 2, 2022
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A national hotline that people can call in a mental health emergency went down for a day before it was restored late Thursday.
Dec 2, 2022
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For people living with HIV, sticking to a prescribed medication regimen is a critical part of staying healthy. However, having to deal with the side effects caused by those medications—nausea and dizziness among them—can ...
Nov 11, 2022
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Every year, the Great American Smokeout draws attention to preventing deaths and chronic illness caused by smoking. Almost 38 million Americans, including nearly one million in New Jersey, still smoke tobacco and about half ...
Nov 9, 2022
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UW Medicine researchers have found that algorithms are as good as trained human evaluators at identifying red-flag language in text messages from people with serious mental illness. This opens a promising area of study that ...
Oct 11, 2022
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Sending regular texts to young people who have recently had a sexually transmitted infection (STI) to encourage safer sex behaviors does not reduce rates of chlamydia and gonorrhea reinfection, finds a trial published by ...
Sep 28, 2022
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Text message reminders effectively promote receipt of a second dose of influenza vaccine among children, according to a study published online Aug. 15 in Pediatrics.
Aug 15, 2022
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Back in mid 2020, it was suggested mask use was similar to seat belt wearing in cars. Not everyone wore a seat belt start straight away, but now it's unheard of to get into a car and not put it on.
Jul 15, 2022
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A lack of clear systems for communicating test results in primary care can lead to confusion, frustration and anxiety for patients and potential delays in diagnosis and treatment, according to research published in the British ...
Jul 12, 2022
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Digital interventions that help people take their asthma medication better, such as "smart" inhalers or text messages, may cut the risk of asthma attacks by half, finds a new review of evidence led by UCL, Queen Mary University ...
Jun 13, 2022
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Automated text messaging was as effective as direct phone calls in getting unvaccinated patients to seek out a COVID-19 shot, according to a new study from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania ...
Jun 13, 2022
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