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The world of online health communities is morphing and evolving even as we sit here at our keyboards and google "flu symptoms" then tweet that we’ve got a cold. So what IS emerging from the cutting edge of online health communities? How do they differ and what do they have in common? The Health 2.0 […] How would you define the experience of truly engaging in healthcare issues online? For Regina Holliday , that moment was when her husband was diagnosed with kidney cancer. She found ePatient Dave online, and within hours he responded to her with information, referrals and advice on navigating an unresponsive system. Her husband, unfortunately, became sicker […] It’s the most dreaded phone call the parent of a college student could ever get. What phone call am I talking about? Is it “Oh Mom, he’s so hot – not at all like these stuffy academics. And the way he writes! All dreamy and Goth and his prison stationary is just so, so retro […] Another in a sobering series of food-borne outbreaks is recognized. This time, Typhoid Mamey was identified as the cause of smoothie (and milkshake) induced episodes of life-threatening typhoid fever here in California, as well as in Nevada. Why the big alert, if only a few cases have been identified? First, typhoid is a serious infection. […] Has the recent six-month post-earthquake Haiti coverage got you wondering what’s really up – and if things are slowly getting better or not? We all know Haiti is a complex, evolving situation. The mega-earthquake, a once-in-a-250-year-occurrence, was one of the world’s largest urban implosions, in an area already chronically deprived – but located only a […] You may be wondering why Stanford Medical School’s new genetic interpretation class – the one that offers medical students the opportunity to study their own genes – has made the news here. After all, what better genes are there to study than your own? And if you were a medical student, wouldn’t you want to […] |
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