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    Illness in the age of “e”

    Last month, the Connected Health Symposium at Harvard Medical School saw a first: a full-length case study in participatory medicine, described concurrently by both the patient and his physician.

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    Health News Coverage in the U.S. Media

    At a time when health care is a major public policy issue, how have the U.S. media covered the complex subject of health? A new report from PEJ and the Kaiser Family Foundation examines those questions.

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    Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks

    Hunter Gatewood likens early adopters to “happy dogs in a pile of sticks” and says that in order to spread change you need to recruit the “hesitant cat, waiting to see what works.”

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    Crowdsourcing a Survey: Health Topics

    The New York Times quoted our data in an article entitled Logging On for a Second (or Third) Opinion. We happen to be preparing our next health…

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    Declining Public Support for Global Engagement

    Overview The public is feeling much better about how the war in Iraq is going these days, but at the same time has a sharply diminished appetite for U.S. efforts to deal with an array of global problems. Fewer people than at any point in this decade assign high priority to such foreign policy goals […]

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    Participatory Medicine at NIH, Part 2

    The National Institutes of Health recently gathered a group of consumers and people who study them to discuss how to “chart the next course for NIH communications.”

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    Safety Net Populations

    A recent workshop gave me new insights into the strengths and weaknesses of our data.

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