A new text messaging program has been launched to help men with advanced prostate cancer as they undergo chemotherapy. PROST8CARE is the work of Mobile Commons, a New York-based developer of mobile ...

UnitedHealthcare Community Plan of Pennsylvania partnered with Voxiva to launch two text message-based services for their Medicaid benefit plan members. Voxiva also announced this week that more than ...

StayWell is a 60-day CBT/DBT-based text messaging intervention which leverages reinforcement learning algorithms to support mental health. Participants were randomly assigned to receiving personalized ...

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 ...

Perry Village government is aiming to enhance communication with its residents by implementing a new text messaging program. The village will be using TextMyGov, a smart-texting system designed for ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about health innovation, care access barriers and prevention. The TCPA, a decades-old law governed by the Federal ...

A June 2025 U.S. Supreme Court decision creates broad uncertainty for healthcare text messaging compliance by empowering individual federal courts to interpret the Telephone Consumer Protection Act ...

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 ...

A simple, low-cost, automated text-messaging program can nearly triple the odds of quitting smoking for patients with tuberculosis (TB), according to findings from a trial published in JAMA. The ...