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    Deficit Solutions Meet With Public Skepticism

    Overview In many respects, there is a broad public consensus when it comes to the federal budget deficit: seven-in-ten say it is a major problem that must be addressed right away, and roughly two-thirds say that the best way to reduce the deficit is through a combination of cutting major government programs and increasing taxes. […]

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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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    Adolescence, Mobile Technology & Culture

    Mobile health technology is being used to reach adolescent populations from different cultural backgrounds. Susannah Fox will add Pew Internet’s data about health, mobile, and teens to the discussion.

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    Mobile, Social Health at the National Library of Medicine

    Speaking to the senior staff of the National Library of Medicine last week was like going before the best kind of murder board. Our jumping-off point was the Pew Internet Project’s latest research on internet penetration, mobile use, and the socia…

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    Patient Communities… at Walgreens?

    I concluded a recent speech with a challenge: If chronically ill patients can find ways to connect and learn from each other, why can’t your organizations find ways to connect and learn from them? One executive’s positive reaction surprised even m…

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    Tensions Between Rights of Conscience and Civil Rights

    Should doctors, pharmacists and other health care workers have the right to refuse to provide services that conflict with their religious beliefs? Until recently, the debate over “conscience protections” for health care workers centered largely on abortion and birth control. But in the past few years, new cases have emerged that have expanded the debate […]

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    Chronic Disease in Data and Narrative

    The back-story on the report, “Chronic Disease and the Internet,” including answers to questions about probability vs. causality and why we included quotes from patients throughout the analysis.

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    Chronic Disease and the Internet

    People living with chronic disease are disproportionately offline. And yet, those who are online have a trump card: They have each other. They gather and share information; they learn from their peers; and they just keep going.

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