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The use of a text messaging intervention program can help to boost physical activity levels for individuals who are at risk for heart disease, according to a study published in the Journal of the American Heart Association, Clinical Innovation & Technology.

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What is the carbon footprint of a text message, and how much could that footprint, multiplied by all the text messages around the world, contribute to climate change. Can you help me decipher that and get the answers?

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The researchers focused on developing educational text messages, and divided participants in their study into three groups: one that received conventional written reminders of appointments for the vaccine, one that received reminders in the form of text messages, and one that received educational texts that detailed the importance of receiving both doses between the ages of six months and eight years.

Can Text Messaging Help Protect Your Kids from the Flu?

One church in Illinois is notably using text messaging to resolve a problem. St. Thomas the Apostle Catholic Church, located in Crystal Lake near Chicago, has noticed a sharp increase in the number of attendants only during major Christian holidays, and hopes to retain those who come only on days like Christmas and Easter. The church has adopted texting as a means of encouraging these followers to come to other services.

Text Me to Church

In 2013, the United Kingdom-based discount service Net Discount Codes—not exactly a prestigious peer-reviewed journal—released a study that found the average mobile user will send out two million words over their lifetime. Net Discount Codes determined this by extrapolating the average texts a person sends per day—four messages of 20 words—over the average human lifespan. Admittedly, these findings are mostly irrelevant.

Maybe the average person will type out a million words over SMS, maybe not.

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The practice manager of Broomfield Family Practice in Broomfield, Colorado discovered something that recent research has verified: How and when to send out reminder messages to patients can impact a practices bottom line.

To mitigate loss of income due to no-shows, Humphreys started using Apptoto, a cloud-based, automated appointment messaging service. Aside from offering automation, Apptoto has devised a number of messaging strategies it says can significantly impact patient attendance rates -- from the best times to send reminders to simple considerations like the wording of messages. (You can also use PageGate for patient reminders)

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There were some awesome apps released in 2015 that deserve your attention. If you missed them when they were first released earlier this year, now is the time to give them a closer look.

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Study after study points to the power of text messaging to connect health care providers to their patients, improving patient compliance with medications and appointments and giving medical professionals better data. A 2015 Johns Hopkins University study on birth control compliance in young women is no exception, demonstrating the potential texting holds to impact the often underserved area of women's health.

Text Messaging Improves Birth Control Compliance

No one likes getting their jury duty summons, and scheduling around jury duty can be an even greater nuisance. Thankfully, some states and counties are beginning to find ways to reduce this problem, with text messaging taking a central role.

Juror Notifications Via Text Message

I try to maintain grammatical integrity no matter what I’m typing. But a new study suggests that people may not appreciate that while text messaging, and it is not just because they think I’m showing off how much gooder I can word.

The researchers concluded that texts that end in proper and correct periods come off as insincere.

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Researchers have identified a unique brainwave that's initiated by text messaging.

Technologists first identified the unusual rhythm in patients with paroxysmal neurologic events undergoing video electroencephalographic (EEG) monitoring. Researchers have now studied 129 such patients from two centers: Mayo Clinic, Jacksonville, Florida, and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois. Overall, about 24% of those tested had this unique rhythm while texting.

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1. Using multiple texts to say one thing.
2. Sending a text to a very distant acquaintance without identifying yourself.

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In India, millions of people live alongside Asian elephants. Generally, they interact peacefully. But sometimes encounters can turn deadly.  

The stakes are particularly high in the southeastern Indian state of Tamil Nadu. Between 1994 and 2013, 41 people there lost their lives in encounters with elephants. But now, new technology is helping prevent such deaths: An early warning system texts residents if elephants are near.

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