Sending a text message reminder to participants about their upcoming fecal immunochemical test improved previously poor adherence rates for colorectal cancer screening. Participants who received a ...

Text message reminders may improve vaccine adherence As more children live in wireless-only homes, text message services have the potential to be effective immunization reminder tools. BOSTON – A six ...

HealthDay News — A text messaging-based intervention increases influenza vaccination compared with usual care in a low-income, urban population, although overall rates of vaccination remain low, study ...

Text message reminders are a low-cost effective strategy for increasing rates of influenza vaccination. A randomized controlled trial in Western Australia identified patients who were at high risk of ...

Approximately one in three patients prescribed blood pressure or lipid-lowering drugs to prevent coronary heart disease and stroke do not take their medication as prescribed, but a text message ...

Daily text-message reminders appear to increase sunscreen use over a six-week period, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Dermatology, one of the JAMA/Archives journals. Skin ...