Many studies now suggest that there is a much greater success rate in battling childhood obesity beyond traditional methods – such increased parental involvement and more interaction with counselors – and using online intervention and exposure.
New Technology Could Become Best Defense for Fighting Infection
By using data from social media, blogs and online chats, and searching trends in real time through the web and mobile phone data, new online reporting technologies such as Healthmap can help monitor and report isolated epidemic cases. They then provide detection intelligence that can be quickly collated and sorted.
Text Messages Now Help People Kick the Smoking Habit
We all know the health effects smoking causes. We’re familiar with the various ways people use to quit – some working better than others. Some involve old-fashioned methods and some use technology, including social media! Still, only 5 percent of smokers succeed the first time they try to quit.