Health Topics
Food safety, drug safety, and pregnancy information are among eight new topics included in our survey, which finds that 80% of internet users gather health information online.
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Wikipedia, past and present
42% of all Americans turn to the popular collaborative encyclopedia for information online
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Mobile, Social, Games, Texts…and Health
An overview of Pew Internet’s latest findings about technology adoption, with an emphasis on mobile use, social networks, and gaming.
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Cancer 2.0
A summary of recent research related to cancer and the internet.
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Trends in Online Government
Senior Research Specialist Aaron Smith discussed the Pew Internet Project’s findings related to e-government at Digital Government Institute’s annual conference.
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To improve health and health care… fill in the blank
Consumers are often described as the greatest untapped information resource in medicine, but our research shows that patients and caregivers are already accessing that knowledge.
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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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Lessons Learned: Online Patient Communities
Susannah Fox participated in a discussion of how the maturation of online social networks, patient communities, and patient blogs affects health and health care.
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Mobile Health 2010
The online health-information environment is going mobile, particularly among younger adults.
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Online Product Research
58% of Americans have researched a product or service online; 24% have posted comments or reviews online about the things they buy.