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Getting Answers

September 24th, 2010 · No Comments · Opinion

By Kristin Phillips (@klaphillips)

Are you a victim of cyberchondria? That is, do you spend much of your time on Google looking up various symptoms, causes, diseases, treatments, and other medical and health issues? While it might seem normal to you, you’re in the minority. A study of 1,008 American adults from Kyp Holdings and Opinion [...]

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Revolution meets reform: can social media help shrink health disparities in the United States?

April 30th, 2010 · 7 Comments · Knowledge, Trends

By Jim Mittler, PhD, Medical Director (@jim_mittler)

We all know that the social media revolution is happening and it cannot be stopped—this is according to the exponential growth of social media over the past several years. It has fundamentally changed the way in which information is disseminated and the way people communicate throughout the world today. [...]

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