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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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Mar 3, 2011NPR
In the early 1980s, Pat Furlong learned that both her sons had an extremely rare form of muscular dystrophy called Duchenne, a fatal genetic disorder that affects about 20,000 boys each year.
After the diagnosis, Furlong's doctor told...
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Mar 1, 2011Shots: NPR's Health Blog
When people go online searching for health information, they're often also looking for someone who's grappling with the same problem. That's especially true if they're dealing with a rare disease.
The Internet provides a gateway to all ...
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Feb 28, 2011CBC News
Almost a quarter of internet users in the U.S. who are living with a chronic disease have gone online to find others like them, a report shows.
Monday's report from the Pew Internet Project said 18 per cent of U.S. web users without a c...
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Feb 21, 2011American Medical News
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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Feb 1, 2011The New York Times
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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Feb 1, 2011The Washington Post
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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Jan 24, 2011Marketplace
Associate Director Susannah Fox speaks with American Public Media's Marketplace about a new report examining internet use by people living with disabilities. You can Read More
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Jan 21, 2011O’Reilly Media
A new report from the Pew Internet and American Life Project includes the sobering figure that potentially hundreds of thousands of Americans live with disabilities or illness that makes it harder or impossible for them to use the Internet. Accord...
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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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