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  • Media Mention

    Lies, Damn Lies, and Pharma Social Media Statistics

    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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  • Media Mention

    New vital sign: degree of patient's online access

    Patient use of the internet has moved beyond what physicians used to refer to as Dr. Google -- the stacks of information printed from a Google search that patients would bring to the exam room.

    So much of health care is moving online th...

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    More in: Health, Digital Divide

  • Media Mention

    Health Care Is High Among Web Searches

    Four in five Internet users have searched the Web for health care information, most often checking on specific diseases and treatments, a Pew Internet Project survey reported on Tuesday.

    Women were among the most frequent seekers of h...

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  • Media Mention

    Health information remains high on the list of popular uses for the Internet

    Pew has been tracking Internet use in many fields - commerce, music, civic life - since 2000, and from the beginning, Fox said, "we were really struck by the depth of feeling that people expressed" about how the Internet helped them with health ca...

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.