Mobile phone text messaging can help young people manage asthma

Mobile phone text messaging can help young people manage asthma: "We set up a mobile phone text message service consisting of daily reminders to use an inhaler, health education tips, and safety messages. We streamed these into a supply of lifestyle related text messages about sport, celebrity gossip, and horoscopes; they were all written in contemporary text jargon and sent by a “virtual friend with asthma” called Max".Text messages that are reminders about treatment and useful tips on education may be a medium to allow people with chronic health problems to make their disease comply with their lifestyle and not the other way around."