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Texting Immunization Reminders
Focus group and individual interviews were conducted with 28 parents of adolescents (ages 10-19 years) who were seeking care in one or 3 community health centers or 2 private medical offices in New York City. The purpose was to determine parents' acceptance of receiving text messages as a prompt to call for an appointment for their teen's immunization. . . .
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Texting and Tweeting: Making It Safe
This article begins with some scenarios: a 17-year-old is fired from his summer job after blogging about how he hates his boss; an 18 year-old hits the stopped car in front of hers, and police find she was responding to a friend's text; a 14-year-old girl's ex-boyfriend forwards her e-mail (that begged him to get back together) to all. . . .
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Television, Video Games and Attention Problems
It has been hypothesized that fast moving television shows and video games are so exciting that they cause children to experience difficulty with their attention span on far less exciting tasks, like school work. Yet, few studies have examined an association between video games and attention problems. . . .
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Middle School Youth and Risky Internet Behaviors
Youth use the Internet for information gathering and social contact, but some engage in risky behaviors or are exploited and harassed by others. This study applied an adaptation of the Youth Internet Safety (YIS) Survey to describe Internet use behaviors, including specific risk-taking behaviors, in a group of middle school students. . . .
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Health Professionals Who Text
Health professionals have traditionally communicated with one another using handwritten notes in medical charts, consultant letters, telephone calls, and face-to-face conversations. Technological advances have led to ubiquitous use of e-mail (on computers and smart phones), texting and voice mail. . . .
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Do Cell Phones Interfere with Hospital Equipment?
Inaccessibility to cell phone coverage in many hospitals makes one wonder if cell phones, smart phones, and other electronic devices can interfere with hospital equipment. Any device that transmits a signal (including some lap tops) can potentially interfere with electrical equipment in a hospital, such as telemetry, smart pumps, sensors, dialysis machines, ventilators, etc. . . .
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Librarians Help Parents of Special Needs Children (2005)
Community libraries can help parents with special needs children access health, development and resource information on the Internet. The National Network of Libraries of Medicine funded a project in Washington State in which parent coordinators (from two family support agencies) were paired with community librarians . . .
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Can Online Intervention Promote Better Eating? (2008)
Weight management is notoriously difficult to promote and maintain among children and adolescents. Research suggests that reducing binge eating may prevent additional weight gain and even lead to weight loss. This study investigates the use of an internet-facilitated intervention for weight management and binge eating in adolescents. . . .
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Acute Computer-Related Injuries (2009
The National Electronic Injury Surveillance System collected information about acute injuries seen in reporting US emergency departments. This is the first national summary of over 78,000 computer-associated injuries reported between 1994 and 2006. . . .
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Video Games: Solution to Obesity?
Exercise intervention strategies targeting weight loss in children have had limited results. These researcher examined energy expenditure and cardiovascular responses in children engaged in video games that are active. . . .
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