SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 27, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- In a continuing effort to keep students safe, some high schools in Oakland, CA have just launched a new "text-a-tip" program. This cell phone texting ...

More than 2 million American middle and high school students now use e-cigarettes, also known as “vaping." A clinical trial found that teens enrolled in the “This is Quitting” anonymous text message ...

Pregnant women who received text messages regarding neonatal health adopted healthier behaviors and improved their health status, according to a study in the Journal of Medical Internet Research.

Megan Ranney, M.D., M.P.H., an emergency medicine attending physician at Hasbro Children's Hospital, recently led a study that found a text-message program may be an effective violence prevention tool ...

A texting progam co-developed by a University of Minnesota School of Public Health professer aims to help Native American communities quit commercialized tabacco and smoking through a texting program.

ROCKVILLE, Md., May 5, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Feeding challenges are among the most common—and stressful—issues that families with young children face. However, caregivers searching for guidance often ...

Losing men and women is a heartbreaking but unavoidable fact of war. But losing them once they've made it home in one piece is unacceptable. Nothing is more gut-wrenching than imagining that a person ...

The National Cancer Institute’s (NCI) Smokefree.gov initiative and the Indian Health Service (IHS) have joined forces to announce the availability of SmokefreeNATIVE, a free text messaging program to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. When Deanna Hogue needed a doctor on a holiday weekend, she reached her physician on his cell phone. Dr. James Gardner III ...

TEXT TO GET FAST EMERGENCY ASSISTANCE. OUR MADELINE CARTER TESTED IT OUT TO SHOW YOU HOW IT WORKS IN REAL TIME. MOST PEOPLE WOULD PICK UP THE PHONE AND CALL 911 IN AN EMERGENCY. BUT HOW DO YOU GET ...