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Tapping the potential applications of mHealth

The Health Policy Exchange

Mobile health, or "mHealth" for short, describes technology that allows clinicians or public health professionals to monitor and/or deliver health-related messages to patients via cellular phones, tablets, or other wireless devices. electrocardiogram) and would pose safety risks to patients if they malfunctioned.

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Evidence v. Belief: What a Kennedy Appointment Could Mean to FDA and Public Health

FDA Law Blog

Rates of chronic disease are high, as is obesity. In the meantime, this belief was followed for centuries by doctors, to the detriment of countless patients. Wise government officials will modulate their views as they learn new facts. Kennedy’s tag line is that he and Trump will “Make America Healthy Again.”