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The story of a kidney donation thanks to a Facebook friend whom the recipient had never met was  published on March 31.  The two people met once the volunteer had stepped forward. The tissue compatibility was verified and a friendship began between the 2 people. This is not the first such case. Other stories can be found by googling. So,...

It's all over the web these days: blogposts, studies, tweets, about how doctors are behaving in social media. Are doctors being professional, ethical, non-promotional? Today's Huffington Post article on the subject does a good wrap-up citing TwitterDoctors.Net, site that includes 1300 physicians and their stats, a Jama study, and Kevin Pho, a physician blogger.What will we be hearing in the...

What self-respecting health on the internet fan doesn't know PatientsLikeMe  the site that enables English-speaking patients to create their online profile, generate dynamic graphic representations of their data and– most important of all, meet up with people "like them"? For many, myself included, PatientsLikeMe is the icon of the Health 2.0 movement. Two new changes to PatientsLikeMe rules inspired this blogpost 1)...

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Having had the pleasure of nominating the #BornHIVFree campaign for the 2011 #hesawards managed by Creation HealthCare, am pleased to note that the campaign is the winner of the 2011 People Power Award.       Below, please find the title of the poster I presented on same subject at Medicine 2.0 Maastricht, in November, 2010. ...

First event of its kind to be held in Paris, France June 22-23, 2011; agenda will address results to-date, impact and business aspects of social media and tools in healthcare delivery. PARIS–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Doctors 2.0™ & You, a first-time conference examining how doctors use social media and Web 2.0 tools to connect with patients, colleagues, pharma, payers and hospitals, will be...

On the one hand, prescription drugs contribute to the extension of life expectancy in numerous diseases. On the other, pharmacovigilance or the surveillance of side effects of drugs is imperfect because a) it depends on the central collection of side effect reports, b) a sense of certainty about the specific responsibility of the drug which is not always clear, because...

  The recent Dutch-origin consumer drug rating website http://www.mijnmedicijn.nl appears in Germany and France as Meamedika.de and Meamedica.fr It was created by a Dutch pharmacist Wendela Wessels.  Publishing a new rating site in healthcare in France, for example, is not easy to succeed. Private rating sites  are not forbidden by French law, but so far, there are no comparative healthcare professional...