Pew Research Center

FOR RELEASE SEPTEMBER 18, 2011

Medicine 2.0

The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

BY Susannah Fox

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Medicine 2.0

The internet provides access not only to information, but also to each other, and Pew Internet’s research documents how this has transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

Susannah Fox will be the closing keynote speaker at the Medicine 2.0 conference at Stanford University on Sunday, September 18, 2011.

She will present the Pew Internet Project’s latest research on the use of social networking sites and smartphones — and how these technologies have transformed the health communications landscape over the last 10 years.

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