Text-Messaging Program Helps Parents Keep Infants at Healthy Weight By Dennis Thompson HealthDay Reporter MONDAY, Nov. 4, 2024 (HealthDay News) -- Text messages and other online feedback can help ...

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 ...

Baylor University launched a campus-grown intervention to enhance student well-being via text messaging. Young people are ...

The New York State health department partnered with New York Quitline to launch the DropTheVape texting program.

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 ...

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 29, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- The American Speech-Language-Hearing Association (ASHA) has won a 2025 Summit Award for HEAR and TALK—two text messaging programs that deliver ...

On December 3, 1992, in Newbury, England, computer scientist Neil Papworth texted two words—“Merry Christmas”—to Richard Jarvis, a Vodafone engineering director, who was across town at a Christmas ...

Send a text, stop a smoker? That’s what the National Cancer Institute hopes for, as it pushes new smartphone-based tobacco cessation programs. Instead of sending teens the traditional tobacco ...