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.

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Young people in a low-income, urban population had an increased rate of influenza vaccinations when they ...

BOSTON – A six month quality improvement project using personalized text message reminders to prompt patients about upcoming vaccinations demonstrated initial improvements in vaccine adherence at a ...

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 ...