Health Online 2013
35% of U.S. adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition; of these, half followed up with a visit to a medical professional.
Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
35% of U.S. adults have gone online to figure out a medical condition; of these, half followed up with a visit to a medical professional.
Half of smartphone owners use their devices to get health information and one-fifth of smartphone owners have health apps
While many see promise in the future of data analysis, some fear that work with gigantic stores of information could lead to privacy abuses and mistaken forecasts
A conversation about rare disease, the impact of the internet, and love.
As mobile, social tools spread throughout the population, people are connecting with each other. Why not harness those tools for health?
Those who are active in church, religious, or spiritual organizations are often more deeply involved in their communities than those who are not members of such groups.
Peer-to-peer healthcare is a way for people to do what they have always done – lend a hand, lend an ear, lend advice – but at internet speed and at internet scale.
Lee Rainie gave a keynote address that looked at people’s evolving use of the internet and mobile technologies and their attitudes about the role of the internet in their lives and the wider world.
Susannah Fox presented the Project’s latest findings on how mobile access is affecting health and health care.
A summary of recent research related to cancer and the internet.
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