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President’s Cancer Panel: Input, Please

Susannah Fox | November 30, 2010

What evidence would you bring to convince cancer researchers and policy makers to pay attention to how the internet is changing health and health care? That’s my challenge for the Dec. 14 meeting of the President’s Cancer Panel, “The Future of Cancer Research: Accelerating Scientific Innovation” (PDF of the agenda).

research issues

Health Geek Tip: Abstracts are ads. Read full studies when you can.

Susannah Fox | June 16, 2010

Ivan Oransky, executive editor of Reuters Health, provided excellent evidence yesterday regarding the need to look past abstracts of journal articles if accuracy matters to you:

trends & principles

All Together Now: The Internet Does Not Replace Health Professionals

Susannah Fox | March 4, 2010

The March 4 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine includes a letter from Brad Hesse, Richard Moser, and Lila Rutten, three National Cancer Institute researchers whose work is a continual inspiration to me. Their analysis of data from the Health Information National Trends Survey (HINTS) shows that the vast majority of Americans, “despite [...]

trends & principles

Health Sites: Some Are More Equal Than Others

Susannah Fox | January 21, 2010

Update: Roni Zeiger of Google Health emailed me and gave permission for me to post the following statement, which I think is a helpful addition to the conversation: Health information is obviously an important category of information users are looking for. For this health search feature we decided to offer users one source each from [...]