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    Implications

    What does this mean for cancer treatment and cancer research? In addition to tracking the intersection of health care and technology through survey research, I scout for examples of participatory medicine.[9.numoffset=”9″ Participatory medicine is a cooperative model of health care that encourages and expects active involvement by all connected parties (patients, caregivers, health care professionals, […]

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    Wild Winter Weather Tops the Web

    The first big East Coast snowstorm of the winter season beat out the economy and domestic terrorism as the top story last week, according to a special web news edition of PEJ’s weekly News Coverage Index. And defeated Delaware Senate candidate Christine O’Donnell, a magnet for media coverage during the 2010 campaign, returned to the spotlight, but not on the most flattering of terms.

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    Online Health Seeking: How Social Networks Can Be Healing Communities

    This keynote will explore the Pew Internet Project’s latest findings on health searches and sharing on the internet and smart phones, as well as how digital technologies allow patient-centered communities to emerge and give care to those who are s…

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    Social Trends and New Devices Garner Greatest Attention from the MSM

    If all the topics covered in technology in the past year are taken together, they fall into a handful of categories. A host of explicit problems—from cyber-security, to privacy concerns, crime incidents and more—made up a nearly third (a combined 32%) of the technology coverage. The combination of stories about social and cultural trends and […]

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    Americans and their gadgets

    As the digital world has expanded far beyond the desktop, consumers can now choose from an array of devices capable of satisfying their need for “anytime, anywhere” access to news, information, friends and entertainment.

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    Twitter – a Call to Action

    On Twitter, meanwhile, this new medium’s election role was clearly defined and considerably different than the other media platforms studied. The social media tool has consistently displayed its organizing and galvanizing capacity in its response to a number of major events—from marshalling support for the Iranian protesters in 2009 to aiding relief efforts after the […]

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    mp3 Players

    Nearly half of all adults own an mp3 player such as an iPod.

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    Little Change in Opinions about Global Warming

    Overview Views about the existence and causes of global warming have changed little over the past year. A new Pew Research Center poll finds that 59% of adults say there is solid evidence that the earth’s average temperature has been getting warmer over the past few decades. In October 2009, 57% said this. Roughly a […]