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Apr 18, 2011Dose of Digital
Somewhere along the way, I began to notice that I developed a really low tolerance for the abuse of legitimate research and statistics in an effort to garner a great headline. When I see these headlines, I’m usually among the first to dig into the...
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Nov 8, 2010WBUR's Here and Now
When you get sick, is your first stop Google or WebMD? According to a survey by Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project, 61 percent of Amer...
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Aug 2, 2010PBS Newshour
With a contentious midterm election just around the corner, the Obama administration is continuing to tout what health reform will mean for Americans -- even turning the president into an online pitchman for the administration's new health coverag...
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Jan 27, 2010USA Today
Raise your hand if you've ever left a physician's office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an...
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Nov 16, 2009NPR
Most e-patients go online to read about a health condition. But that seems almost passive compared to the way a small group of Internet-savvy people are connecting to get their health information.
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Nov 11, 2009Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.
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Oct 19, 2009Washington Post
[...] Online health sites have been booming in the past five years, experts say, driven by the popularity of social networking and patients' desire to become more empowered in the increasingly complex medical field. Many of the sites have recently...
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Oct 16, 2009CNN
2. SusannahFox: Fox is a researcher at the Pew Internet and American Life Project. Doesn't sound very health-care-relevant, huh? But Fox's Twitter feed is packed with anecdotes and stat...
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Sep 14, 2009Pulse + Signal
Andre Blackman of Pulse + Signal interviews Associate Director Susannah Fox about her research. [video]
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Sep 3, 2009CNN
Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew Internet Project, says that if you want to communicate with your doctor electronically, you might have to first explain why the current methods of communication aren't working for you. After all, doctors...
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