Prognosis: Large Social Networks May Help Surgical Patients
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Having a large network of friends and family may help surgical patients experience less anxiety and pain before their operations and a quicker recovery afterward.
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Comment is free: Indra Adnan: Social networking has turned relationships that were easy to distinguish into one amorphous web.
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The online social-networking world is crammed with websites where college friends, nurses, moms, and even cat lovers can mix and mingle. Tomorrow , a Cambridge company called Wis.dm joins the fray, offering an online hangout for the inquisitive -- a social network where it's not who you know, but what you know.
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Researchers are using Facebook habits to study how tastes and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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Using the internet to manage a chronic illness can leave you in worse health than before you logged on, a review of recent studies has found.
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A predictions market about technology that can benefit from the wisdom of crowds.
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Social networking sites have changed the game for political candidates.
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Disaboom.com, a new Web site for the 50 million Americans with a disability, combines social-networking with medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips.
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Patient choice over where to get surgery could lead to a widening of health inequalities, experts say.
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WEDNESDAY, Dec. 22 (HealthDay News) -- Although it has been a long time coming, physicians are beginning to consider the Internet an integral part of their practice.
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NEW YORK - A well-wisher from Chicago hoped he would have a speedy recovery. An admirer who had just read his autobiography felt it was like having a friend in the hospital...
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Surgery could aid the severely disfigured, researchers write, but others say ethical and social questions remain. By Laura Ungar. LOUISVILLE, Ky.
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The matter of Scoble vs. Facebook is not about either. It's about the deeper choice we face in all the relationships we choose on the Net: the choice between dependence and independence. read more
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BALTIMORE -- Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?
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New social networking site lets users share photos, videos, and more.
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A team of researchers is using the Facebook habits of students to study how personal tastes, habits and values affect the formation of social relationships.
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Forget matchmaking. Researchers should use social networks to land matching funds. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.