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This just in: “The Internet appears to be a double-edged sword, assisting in the search for health care information for the poor and elderly while magnifying existing gaps based on other factors.”
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This just in: “The Internet appears to be a double-edged sword, assisting in the search for health care information for the poor and elderly while magnifying existing gaps based on other factors.”
Loved ones not only influence your choice of school, car, or housing — they might influence your choices about smoking, exercise, and food, even if they live hundreds of miles away.
MP3s, dishwashers, can openers, and Twitter are examples of "good enough" technologies.
12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.
Cancer “weather maps,” the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.
Tom Ferguson’s spirit lives on at e-patients.net
This presentation provides data and insights about how the “participatory Web” may change how survey researchers think about online health information, as well as data on adults who continue to be offline in an online world.
Tagging, blogging, and social networking sites allow internet users to search for, catalog, and disseminate information.
Most internet users start at a search engine when looking for health information online. Very few check the source and date of the information they find.
Is there such a thing as “internet addiction”? A new survey of internet users suggests that a portion of them experience behavioral problems connected to their internet use. Lee Rainie is among the panelists on the program who discuss the findings…
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