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    After Grim Diagnosis, Parents Turn to Internet, Social Networks

    The Internet often provides families like the Leach's unfiltered health information and access to specialists. It also has increasingly become the place where people connect with others who share similar diagnoses, through blogging, Facebook and o...

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    A Foundation for Evidence-Driven Practice: A Rapid Learning System for Cancer Care

    The IOM's National Cancer Policy Forum held a workshop October 5-6, 2009, to examine how to improve treatment and accelerate advances in cancer management by applying the concept of a "rapid learning health system"—using advances in IT and impr...

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    Online Social Networks Bridge Gaps for Chronically Ill

    People fighting chronic illnesses are less likely than others to have Internet access, but when compared to people of the same demographic group, they are more likely to blog or participate in online discussions about health problems, according to...

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    Technology and Your Health

    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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25%

The percentage of adults who own a tablet computer as of August 2012, up from 10% in mid-December 2011

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The Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project is one of seven projects that make up the Pew Research Center. The Center is supported by The Pew Charitable Trust.