Article: Doctors provide virtual text message friend for young asthmatics.(Brief Article)

TELECOMWORLDWIRE-13 September 2002-Doctors provide virtual text message friend for young asthmatics (C)1994-2002 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD http://www.m2.com

Doctors have set up a "virtual friend" called Max to help young asthmatics remember to use their inhalers.

Max sends horoscopes, celebrity gossip, sports messages and medical reminders to children in text messages in an attempt to reduce the number of times the children forget to user their preventer or reliever inhalers.

The 30 children who participated in the study found that the texts were ...

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