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Health Care Industry Seeking Prescription For Best Use Of Net
5/17/2005 | 
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Donna Howell , Yahoo News, Business
'"Sure, they'll Google the sniffles.
But there's a limit to the online health help patients seek.
Yet health care marketers lack a magic prescription for capturing their attention, and many are playing catch-up in the information age.
A study released Tuesday shows two-thirds of people online have searched cyberspace for help with a medical problem, which is one in three of all U.S. adults.
And more than half of online users have looked into diet or nutrition, says the nonprofit Pew Internet & American Life Project. It based its findings on a survey of more than 900 people, two-thirds of whom were regular online users."
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