Tuesday, April 24, 2012

Texts prime parents to get kids a flu shot: study

Texts prime parents to get kids a flu shot: study
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Research in New York City suggests that sending parents educational text messages about the flu vaccine and where to get it could increase the number of kids and teens protected during flu season. Researchers following more than 9,000 mostly low-income kids found that when parents got a series of text messages starting early in the 2010-2011 flu season, their kids were more likely to have gotten a flu shot by the end of that season than children of parents who didn't receive the texts. ...
Source: news.yahoo.com

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