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Nancy Finn: Smartphone Health Care Apps Storm the Market

Kathleen O'Malley | November 9, 2011

Guest blogger Nancy Finn reports on the popularity of health apps. She is the author of e-Patients Live Longer. The Pew Internet & American Life Project conducted a national telephone survey of 2,277 adults in May 2011 and found that 83% own some kind of cell phone. One-third of these cell phone users (35%) own [...]

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Steve Jobs’ Cancer Denial

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | October 23, 2011

The 60 minutes interview with Steve Jobs’ biographer is an intriguing piece that gives us a few insights into Steve Jobs and his battle with pancreatic cancer. But the most disturbing part of the interview for me was watching Walter Isaacson, a former editor of TIME Magazine, talk about how Jobs was in complete denial [...]

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First Diagnosing Mole iPhone app

John M. Grohol, Psy.D. | July 7, 2011

Well, it was bound to happen. Skin Scan is a new iPhone app that purports to analyze your moles for evidence of malignancy — all in the application itself through its own proprietary algorithms. Just take a few photos over time, and it will analyze their patterns and growth for signs that the mole is [...]