by Jessie Gruman | Sep 6, 2011
Have you followed the long and painful efforts to improve the information prescription drug manufacturers are required to provide us? Really, given that almost half of us in the US take at least one prescription medication daily, you’d think this would be a high...
by Susannah Fox | Aug 9, 2010
If you haven’t listened to the Patient Voices series on The New York Times site, let me be the first to recommend it. I spend quite a bit of time writing up survey data, working with moderately large respondent pools (N=2,253 is the number of people who...
by e-Patient Dave | Dec 20, 2009
We’re thrilled to see our Joe and Terry Graedon, of PeoplesPharmacy.com, in the New York Times (“Not All Drugs Are the Same After All”) telling a truth that the FDA hasn’t figured out: generics don’t always work the same as the brand name...
by Jon Lebkowsky | Jun 14, 2009
Physician Pauline Chen writes about “Medicine in the Age of Twitter” for the New York Times. The article suggests the need for our upcoming peer-reviewed Journal of Participatory Medicine:…a quick scan through peer-reviewed journals reveals only a...
by Susannah Fox | Dec 2, 2008
Just before Thanksgiving, Microsoft released a study entitled, “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search.” Ryen White and Eric Horvitz took advantage of a data set that few people have access to (log files from...
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