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Commentary
Jun 12, 2012Susannah Fox
A 5-minute video overview of peer-to-peer health care.
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Media Mention
Erin Meyer, Chicago Tribune
Jun 12, 2012
[...] McGarry, a mother of two from Naperville, suffered a heart attack a few hours later in an emergency room. She was diagnosed with a rare, often fatal heart condition that can affect otherwise healthy young women.
Stricken in January 2011, McG...
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Commentary
Jun 8, 2012Susannah Fox
Pew Internet asked two questions about "self-tracking" in 2010 - how should we expand this area of our research?
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Presentation
Jun 5, 2012Susannah Fox
Susannah Fox will serve as a "white hat" advisor to participants in the Health Data Initiative Forum.
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Susan Seliger, New York Times
May 23, 2012
When Wendy Naumann’s father and three siblings received her mother’s diagnosis — a terminal brain tumor — they were overwhelmed. Just communicating within the family to keep everybody updated on her mother’s condition was exhausting, as they were spr...
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Courtney Humphries, Technology Review
May 15, 2012
Mobile health devices and software could change medicine profoundly, allowing people to continuously monitor vital signs and better track and modify behavior. That's important because chronic diseases like obesity and diabetes are on the rise. "We're...
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Amy Dockser Marcus, The Wall Street Journal
Apr 16, 2012
Doctors around the country have enlisted some new helpers in the fight against chronic disease—their patients.
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The new network may have an advantage, though: These are patients who are especially comfortable with the technology involved i...
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Milt Freudenheim, The New York Times
Apr 1, 2012
With smartphones changing the culture in so many ways, more and more young people are using their mobile devices to keep track of their health, and the trend is not going unnoticed by advertisers.
Young adults are much more likely than older peopl...
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Neil Versel, MobiHealthNews
Mar 28, 2012
According to Fox, about 10 percent of U.S. adults who have cell phones – and nearly every adult in the country has one these days – had registered to use a mobile health app, a number nearly unchanged from a year ago. Many, Fox told the Sun, used the...
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Commentary
Mar 16, 2012Susannah Fox
A conversation about rare disease, the impact of the internet, and love.
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