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Jun 6, 2013Susannah Fox
Highlights of the Pew Internet Project’s research related to health and health care.
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Eight in ten internet users have looked online for health information. Read a summary of Pew Internet's health research.
Apr 27, 2010Susannah Fox
Free survey data about the impact of the internet, going back to the year 2000.
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Apr 26, 2010Susannah Fox
Highlights from some of the key presentations made at a National Institutes of Health workshop held in November 2009.
Apr 23, 2010Susannah Fox
A conversation with Susannah Fox and Thomas Goetz, executive editor of Wired Magazine, at the Pew Research Center in Washington DC.
Apr 6, 2010Susannah Fox
What does the internationalization of information mean for patients and health professionals? What are the strengths - and weaknesses - of online patient communities?
Claire Cain Miller, New York Times
Mar 24, 2010
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 a ...
Mar 24, 2010Susannah Fox
The back-story on the report, "Chronic Disease and the Internet," including answers to questions about probability vs. causality and why we included quotes from patients throughout the analysis.
Mar 24, 2010Susannah Fox, Kristen Purcell
People living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline. And yet, those who are online have a trump card: They have each other. They gather and share information; they learn from their peers; and they just keep going.
ABC'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? Watch it here.)
Mar 9, 2010Amanda Lenhart
This panel discusses the opportunities and challenges presented by technology for STD prevention. Amanda presents Pew Internet's latest data on the use of technology by teens and young adults for communicating, socializing and information gathering.
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Mar 4, 2010Susannah Fox
The kinds of health information sought and found online are different from what people can glean from most traditional sources.
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