Susannah Fox

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Susannah Fox

Teens, Sex and Technology

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Our own John Grohol has an interesting article up on PsychCentral about teens, sex, technology, and the online disinhibition effect (comments are also open on Well). For us: Does online disinhibition play a role in everyone’s use of online health resources?

Doing Our Best to Blow Your Minds (Emerging Trends in Chronic Disease Care)

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Here is my third post in a series of look-backs at the November 2008 Chronic Disease Care conference in San Francisco. (OK, yes, it’s now January 2009 — I’m savoring the experience, not Twittering it!) The first post was about spreading improvement beyond early adopters, the second was devoted to patient voices, and this will […]

Patient Voices at CHCF’s Chronic Disease Care Conference

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This is the second in a series of posts about the California HealthCare Foundation’s Chronic Disease Care conference (the first was Happy Dogs in a Pile of Sticks). Patient Voices: Managing Chronic Conditions, Living our Lives Ted Eytan snapped a photo that captured this session: Patient Involvement Makes People Smile Here is each person’s story:

NIH Summit on Health Disparities–Susannah Fox

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NIH is sponsoring a summit this week, The Science of Eliminating Health Disparities. I heard about it from Mary Brophy Marcus’s article in USA Today and I found this press release online, but I haven’t seen other coverage of the event. If you spot stories about the summit in the news, on blogs, on Twitter, […]

Breaking News at Hematology Meeting – for Patients–Susannah Fox

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Andrew Schorr is the founder of Patient Power, LLC, and shares this dispatch, his second for e-patients.net: I had a whirlwind weekend at the Moscone Center in San Francisco where I broadcast five and a half hours of live interviews with leading hematologists and hematologist/oncologists on the latest news in a variety of chronic conditions. […]