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Information Technology for Health Advocacy: American Cancer Society's Social Media Strategy
Health: One constantly voiced theme for marketing or advocacy in social media: Listen, dont just talk. (Also, perhaps not coincidently, good advice in effect
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Hi-Tech Radiation Risks (part 1): Airport Backscatter X-Rays
Health: A newly published report related to cancer risks posed by modern technology may well lower growing concerns about the safety of the 486 "backscatter
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Health Lessons from Somali Pirates?
Health: Online opinions have been flowing freely about the recent murder of four American sailors aboard the private yacht Quest off the coast of Yemen this
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Opportunity for Doctor and Patient Education
Health: According to a Florida study, too many women are receiving surgery for breast lump biopsies. The study estimates that although approximately 30 perce
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Downside of Development: Global Growth in Cancer and Obesity
Health: A bevy of new analyses illustrate the "otherside of development:" Growth in illness and health risk-factors that accompany increased development and
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Could Social Media Advance Cancer Care?
Health: Even though there are some 8,000 clinical trials currently accepting cancer patients as participants, and three-quarters of cancer patients expect th
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Why True Conservatives Should Support 'Death Panels'
Health: There was a time when being politically conservative in the US meant that you endorsed the primacy of individual preferences and values (within the l
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Tests to Predict Disease: The Future of (Your) Health?
Health: A study published in Health Economics has assessed consumers willingness to pay for predictive tests that tell them whether theyre likely to develop
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Star Trek tech for health
Health: Advances in medical imaging are nothing new, in some cases allowing for the detection of abnormalities that are so small health care practitioners ar
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Innovative health, technology, and social support tools needed
Health: Two new studies in the Journal of Hospital Medicine highlight the need for better management of chronic health conditions. Research over the past dec
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Race (still) Matters: Innovation needed to tackle health disparities
Health: A recent posting looked at a new study of health technology being overused in breast cancer care. Another study presented this month at the American
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Is questionable medical information technology putting patients at risk?
Health: Theres been a lot of good news in cancer care lately: The American Cancer society recently reported a decrease in cancer deaths, medical information
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A breakthrough in targeted cancer treatment
Health: Weve recently covered some interesting advances in cancer treatment that have called on the big promises of tiny nanoparticles to more narrowly targe
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Tackling cancer with nanotechnology
Health: A major downside to current chemotherapies for cancer treatment are their side effects. Since the drugs are not capable of distinguishing between hea
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Most cancers survivable, new data confirms
Health: Cancer most certainly appears among the top dread diseases that we hope to never be diagnosed with, or have a loved-one diagnosed with. Year after ye
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Cancer rates decline: American Cancer Society's 2010 report.
Health: The American Cancer Society headlined its Cancer Statistics 2010 report with the news that cancer deaths continue to decline. In fact, reductions ove
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Health care technology: Talking touchscreens deliver cancer care
Health: Three Chicago-area cancer clinics are aiding health care researchers from Northwestern Universitys Feinberg School of Medicine improve patient-center
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Unproven cancer technology drives health care costs
Health: A paper in the recent issue of Archives of Internal Medicine perfectly illustrates how waste in health care can occur when industry and government ig
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Diabetes may double cancer risk
Health: Researchers have consistently found links between cancer and diabetes, something we mentioned in a recent story here at Justmeans. And now a massive
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Critics of health reform target the data
Health: Yesterdays NY Times summarizes criticism of a major data source for health reform: the Dartmouth Atlas of Healthcare, which is run by my employer, Th
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