Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . VANCOUVER, British Columbia — Use of text message reminders to help promote delivery of a second dose of ...

For children who need two doses of the influenza vaccine to be protected, less than half who receive the first dose receive the second needed dose, leaving them unprotected from the flu. However, a ...

Text message reminders don’t increase flu vaccinations in pregnant women, according to a small pilot study. “Text messaging may be effective in some contexts and not in others,” lead study author Dr.

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 ...

Researchers studied the impact of text message reminders for the second dose of influenza vaccine required for many young children to protect them against the virus. The findings showed that sending ...

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 ...