Telehealth Improved Pre-Pandemic Cancer Care Availability in US
Recent research shows that equitable cancer care access and delivery benefited highly from telehealth before the COVID-19 pandemic. Dr. Spring’s STELLAR Program will build on this work.
Telehealth Strategy Tracks Health Risk Behaviors Among Cancer Patients
A Northwestern telehealth strategy aims to monitor three health risk behaviors during cancer treatment.
NCI-funded centers study new ways to apply telehealth across cancer care
NCI’s Telehealth Research Centers of Excellence (TRACE), a Cancer Moonshot-supported initiative funds awards grant to Northwestern University and 3 other institutions
VentureBeat
How Northwestern’s Catalyst Lab scales healthy behavior program with Couchbase
Science Daily
New, remote weight-loss method helped slash pounds: Losing weight during COVID-19 pandemic is urgent as obesity increases risk of severe disease and death
Everyday Health
Study Finds Big Advantages to New Weight Loss Program:
The new program can be delivered virtually, without in-person meetings or classes, and at a lower cost than other current evidence-based options.
Medicalxpress
Remote weight-loss program optimized to cut costs, maximize results
Inverse
How to make anti-coronavirus habits feel like second nature
Reuters
Cancer doctors don’t focus on lifestyle risks
Futurity
Many Doctors hold back health advice for cancer survivors
Florence Health
How to Talk to Cancer Survivors About Maintaining a Healthy Lifestyle
An Interview with Bonnie J. Spring
Bonnie Spring, Ph.D. is Director of the Institute for Public Health
and Medicine (IPHAM) – Center for Behavior and Health. She is
Professor of Preventive Medicine (Behavioral Medicine) in the
Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Weinberg
College of Arts and Sciences at Northwestern University.
Science Daily
Efforts to track food intake on smartphone app impacted by day of week but not season of year: Participants recorded less food on weekends and as time in study progressed
Northwestern Now
Bad habits that lead to cancer, chronic disease corrected by simple lifestyle intervention
ScienceMag
Feature: Can your mobile phone make you healthier?