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HHS Secretary Sebelius Announces text4baby as HHSinnovates Award Winner.

Text4baby, a program of the National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB), has been honored with a US Department of Health and Human Service HHSinnovates award, presented by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius at a ceremony in Washington, DC.

A Partnership on Mobile Technologies to Promote Health Mothers and Babies in Russia.

The National Healthy Mothers, Healthy Babies Coalition (HMHB) and the Healthy Russia Foundation will announce the launch of text4baby International at today’s Civil Society Summit.

Health Net Partners: An Unprecedented Public-Private Partnership Addressing Rising U.S. Infant Mortality Rate

Health Net, Inc. (NYSE: HNT) announced that it has partnered with text4baby – a new, free mobile information service providing timely health information to pregnant women and new moms from pregnancy through a baby’s first year.

HealthPartners partners with Text4baby

HealthPartners is now an outreach partner of text4baby –a new free mobile information service that provides timely health information to pregnant women and new moms from pregnancy through a baby’s first year.

CIGNA Delivers for Health Babies, Adopts Innovative text4baby Program

CIGNA (NYSE:CI) has signed on as an outreach partner of the text4baby program, a national initiative to deliver vital health information via free text messages to pregnant women

Free Text4baby Service for Moms and Moms-to-Be is Growing up Fast

Text4baby, a free program that provides pregnant women and new moms with information they need to take care of their health and give their babies the best possible start in life.

Medica Partners in First-Ever Free Mobile Health Service to Provide Health Tips to Pregnant Women, New Moms

Recognizing that people are increasingly turning to their cell phones or mobile devices to receive important information.

Text4baby Featured on MTV's "16 and Pregnant" in Exclusive Bonus Clip on mtv.com

Watch Samantha talk to her mom about how to enroll in text4baby and what she is learning after reading the text messages.

Take Two Texts and Call Me in the Morning

In an effort to reduce the U.S. infant-mortality rate — which is currently 30th worldwide, worse than Hungary's and Cuba's — public-health advocates are tapping an unlikely resource: the cell phone.

Find Out How Texting Can Help Young Mothers

Parents always make the joke that they wish their child came with a handbook. Well, it looks like modern technology has been listening because now there's a cell phone-based help guide of sorts.

Text4Baby Offers Prenatal Health Tips, Baby Care to New Mothers in US

Amnesty International has criticized the Obama administration for failing to address the high rate of infant mortality in the U.S. The U.S. rate is higher than 40 other nations, which Amnesty calls deplorable and disgraceful.

Text4baby educating new moms via text messaging

The best things in life are free, the saying goes, such as a new nationwide program that brings important health tips to pregnant and new mothers in the form of text messages sent to their cell phones.

Text4Baby Offers Prenatal Health Tips, Baby Care to New Mothers in US

Advice through texting aims to reduce preterm births

Aiming to cut down on the high number of premature births across the nation, a new program will offer words of advice for pregnant women in a place that will be hard to miss: on their cellphones.

Webinar : How You Can Promote Text4baby To Your Constituents

We wanted to update you on the launch of text4baby. Since the White House announcement last Thursday, we have registered over 10,000 women in the service from all 50 states.

AT&T Connects Healthy Moms and Babies Nationwide, Embraces 'text4baby; With Free Texts and Advocacy

AT&T Joins CTIA And Other Carriers To Roll Out Free Health Tips for Expecting Moms. Works with Celebrated Mom Blogger Heather Spohr To Help Reach Millions of Text-pecting Families by Mother's Day 2010

Verizon Wireless Supports Text4baby Program

First-Ever Free Mobile Health Service Text4baby Provides Health Tips to Pregnant Women, New Moms and Addresses Rising U.S. Infant Mortality Rates

Voxiva Launches U.S. text service to aid pregnant women

A D.C.-based mobile technology firm is behind a new government effort to educate and encourage healthy habits in pregnant women.

TechBytes: Text4baby Campaign

A new campaign plans to use text messages to reach mothers-to-be across the country. The "text4baby" campaign for expectant mothers is being announced today. Pregnant women can sign up for weekly messages timed to their due date, with tips on subjects like nutrition and immunization.

U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra Announces Launch of First Free Mobile Health Service for Pregnant Women, New Mothers

The new service, announced by U.S. Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra at a health technology conference in Washington, D.C., aims to use one of the most widely used technologies in America-the mobile phone-to promote maternal and child health.

Healthy Baby Campaign Uses Texts to Reach Mothers

Expectant mothers are getting a new tool to help keep themselves and their babies healthy: pregnancy tips sent directly to their cell phones. The so-called text4baby campaign is the first free, health education program in the U.S. to harness the reach of mobile phones, according to its sponsors, which include Johnson & Johnson, Pfizer, WellPoint and CareFirst BlueCross and Blue Shield. Wireless carriers including AT&T, Verizon and Sprint have agreed to waive all fees for receiving the texts.

Sherri Shepherd, Co-Host of The View, Encourages Women to Sign-Up for Text4baby in Radio PSA

Emmy® award-winning talk show host, comedienne/actress Sherri Shepherd has recorded a series of radio public service announcements (PSAs) encouraging pregnant women and new moms to sign up for the text4baby service. The PSAs featuring Shepherd, a co-host of The View and star of SHERRI, begin airing on radio stations nationwide today.

Teen Mom Finale Special

In the "Teen Mom Finale Special: Check-Up with Dr. Drew," Dr. Drew Pinsky catches up with the cast of "Teen Mom" to reflect on the struggles of their first year of motherhood and reveal what's happened since. From heartwarming to heartbreaking, Maci, Farrah, Catelynn and Amber, four of the young mothers featured in the first season of "16 and Pregnant," openly discuss everything from struggles with mental health issues and a potential pregnancy to broken engagements and new proposals.