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Earlier this month, Businessweek published a major story on Health 2.0 and the rise of patient power in reforming the way health is practiced. Drawing extensively on their case of Patientslikeme, they discussed how members of the social network had enrolled themselves in their own clinical trial for lithium treatments of ALS, issues surrounding Pharma, [...]

After the successful health 2.0 conference in San Francisco last week, there have been several different “where to next?” discussions across the blogosphere. Accompanying these discussions are articles such as the one in Newsweek recently on web 2.0 and the coming of health 2.0, emphasizing “health as a social concept” and therefore, its commitment [...]

There’s some debate currently around the exact nature of health care reform that we may expect with the “googlization of everything”. According to Manhattan Research this week, a new study of “cybercitizens” shows that more U.S. adults used the Internet than doctors to obtain health and medical information over the past year; a noticeable change [...]