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HEART SISTERS is all about women and heart disease - our #1 killer - written from the unique perspective of Carolyn Thomas, a Mayo Clinic-trained "heart attack survivor-turned-heart health evangelist"...
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What really goes on in your friendly online patient group
Online patient discussion forums are helpful to many people, but here's what you may not know: not all of them are the noble grassroots support communities that I once believed them to be. (The...
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Online patient groups: why so under-used?
Online patient support groups can be valuable resources to help us feel less isolated as we make connections with others in the same boat. The surprising thing about online communities is that so...
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Discover. Join. Leave. The life cycle of online patient groups
From the so-called "distressed newcomers" to the "relieved survivors" or "moving-on quitters", there's actually a predictable pattern to the way patients participate in online support groups. But...
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"Seeking Social Solace": why aren't heart patients online?
A study called "Seeking Social Solace" identified trends in how patients with serious medical conditions are using social media platforms like blogs, online patient forums, Facebook or Twitter -...
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Health information online: how to tell the trash from the truth
"Learn the 'Three D's' of identifying if health or cardiac info is truth or trash."See it on Scoop.it, via Women and Heart Disease 6
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How a heart attack turned me into an "information flâneuse"
These words come from the French verb flâner, which means "to stroll". Usually the term refers to “a person who walks the city in order to experience it” - originally affectionately associated with...
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Reliable health info from the 'medically unqualified'?
Dr. Tom Ferguson: "While you may be considerably less likely to find inaccurate, misleading, or self-serving health information on most professional websites run by physicians, this is by no...
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