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Mar 24, 2010ABC's Ahead of the Curve
Susannah Fox explains the internet access gap -- and the health information gap -- between people living with chronic disease and the rest of the U.S. population. (Having trouble seeing the video below? Read More
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Mar 3, 2010US News and World Report
WEDNESDAY, March 3 (HealthDay News) -- The Internet has made vast amounts of health information available to the general public, but all that virtual "noise" has made people more likely than ever to trust their doctor with medical decisions, a new...
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Jan 27, 2010USA Today
Raise your hand if you've ever left a physician's office without fully understanding what the doctor just told you. According to The New England Journal of Medicine, half of patients admit to not understanding what their doctor told them during an...
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Dec 22, 2009Associated Press
Latino adults are increasing their use of the Internet faster than other ethnic groups, according to a new survey from the Pew Hispanic Center and the Pew Internet and American Life Project...
Latinos who were born in the U.S. were m...
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Dec 17, 2009San Jose Mercury News
In its earliest days, Facebook was primarily a white and Asian phenomenon. No more. In the first study of the race and ethnicity of its U.S. users, Facebook said Wednesday that blacks and Latinos have joined the social networking giant at a rapid ...
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Dec 7, 2009USA Today
Internet health experts say there are a handful of reasons that motivate people to type a health topic into a search box on their computer screen and wait, sometimes nervously, for the results, including a new diagnosis or concern for a family mem...
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Nov 16, 2009NPR
Most e-patients go online to read about a health condition. But that seems almost passive compared to the way a small group of Internet-savvy people are connecting to get their health information.
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Nov 11, 2009Associated Press
WASHINGTON — As federal regulators take their first tentative steps toward policing the wild west of medical information online, pharmaceutical companies are pressing their case to market drugs via Google, Twitter and other Web sites.
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Oct 31, 2009San Jose Mercury News
Microsoft, Yahoo and Google say they are innovating because people's expectations for a search engine are far higher than they were even five years ago. People no longer search for a Web site; now they expect to find a specific piece of informatio...
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Oct 21, 2009MSNBC
Nearly one in five Internet users is tweeting on Twitter or using another service to share personal and business updates, or to see updates about others, according to a new study from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. That's an increase to...
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