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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Research reveals which social network site is capturing the hearts and clicks of Britons.
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The presence or absence of a protein in   lung cancer cells can help doctors predict whether chemotherapy   will help patients live longer after surgery, European   researchers reported on Wednesday.
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A website aims to allow patients to see how private and voluntary hospitals and health providers are performing.
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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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Disaboom.com, a new Web site for the 50 million Americans who have a disability, combines social-networking with medical news, career advice, dating resources and travel tips.
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Many court other sites on the side Social networking users tend to get around, as they say, and not stay faithful to one network, according to a new study.â¦
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BALTIMORE -- Has it come to this? Robots standing in for doctors at the hospital patients' bedside?
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(Source: AT&T)  Hospitals used to be slowed down by paper. But by bolstering digital databases and wireless capabilities, everyone can work more efficiently.
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By Nick Jackson  The rise of social networking sites such as MySpace among office workers looks set to become responsible for more lost working hours than the flu. For schools, the sites pose more serious problems.
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Social-networking site will launch premium services next year. Among possibilities: helping recruiters do "back door" reference checks. Photo: Staffing executive uses LinkedIn.
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The extent of executives' social networks with colleagues plays a crucial role in determining if a technology start-up will live or die, says a U.S. study.
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A long-term study of people who had surgery for obesity found they lost more weight and experienced fewer obesity-related complications, including diabetes, than people who didn&#39;t have the operation.
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TechMeme really likes Friday evening's Monkey piece, it's been #1 for almost 24 hours. Even if people still use the Social Graph term, it may have done some good by asking the question -- what's the difference between a network and a graph? In math there is no difference, a network is a graph and vice versa.  I got one thing wrong, apparently the term came from Facebook, presumably as a way of separating what they do from their predecessors.  Dan Farber reported in May. "Zuckerberg describes the Facebook core function that the new third-party applications can tap into as a 'social graph,' the network of connections and relationships between people on the service." Google Trends comparison of "social network" vs "social graph." Fred Wilson posted a comment pointing to a post where he wondered what the graph thing was all about. His post was one that inspired me to write my piece. Buzzwords and phrases are useful if they describe something new. For example, I remember when platform was new, but I didn&#185;t object to it, because it explained a concept that we needed a word for. Today it's still much in use, and there's little or no confusion about what it means. I was doing audio blog posts before we had the term podcast, and I totally got behind it because we needed a word for what we were doing. But social graph is not needed, it makes something simple sound complicated, and we totally need it to sound simple if the problems are going to get solved. They&#185;re not trivial problems, they&#185;ve been there since the Internet outgrew academia and started being used for commercial purposes. Another problem with new names for old things is that it tends to push aside the pioneers and makes it sound like newcomers are not also-rans. Fred had a reasonable gripe as a backer of Wasabe when Mint started getting credit for being a first mover. At least they didn&#185;t have the chutzpah to try to make it a trend and give it a buzzword.  Someone is being pushed aside with the term &#179;social graph&#178; likely some competitors of Facebook like MySpace and LinkedIn, and some pioneers are going to lose credit for their innovation if it takes root. It may still take root, but I felt I had to say something. BTW, the title of the post contains a grammatic error because I changed the title to monkey from something else and didn't look carefully at the resulting title.
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Le misure, network di medici e formazione categorie deboli
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What the Internet tells us about how the media, advertising and awareness months spread information on diseases and illnesses
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Forget matchmaking. Researchers should use social networks to land matching funds. By Bruce Sterling from Wired magazine.