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    Miracle on Facebook

    Although she didn't know it at the time, Hernandez had become part of a cutting-edge trend: peer-to-peer health care. Type the words "kidney donor" in Facebook's search engine, and you'll get some sense of the movement's scope: Hundreds of pages c...

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    More in: Health, Social Networking

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    Data for the public good

    "I do believe we are at the beginning of a revolutionary moment in health care, when patients and clinicians collect and share data, working together to create more effective health care systems," said Susannah Fox, associate director for digital ...

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    After Grim Diagnosis, Parents Turn to Internet, Social Networks

    The Internet often provides families like the Leach's unfiltered health information and access to specialists. It also has increasingly become the place where people connect with others who share similar diagnoses, through blogging, Facebook and o...

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    More in: Health, Web 2.0

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73%

of library patrons in the past 12 months say they visit to borrow print books.

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