Cyberchondria, Top Medical Trends for 2010 and Other News February 7, 2010
Posted by Dr. Bertalan Meskó in Health, Health 2.0, Medicine, Medicine 2.0, Video, Web 2.0, What's on the web?.trackback
Microsoft’s Ryen White and Eric Horvitz conducted a study into the growing condition dubbed “cyberchondria,” a phenomenon that describes anxieties about health instigated by reading information online. They compared the results of online searches for information about common symptoms including “headache,” “muscle twitches,” and “chest pain” between generic and medical search engines. The results alone are enough to give you palpitations.
- Japanese group introduces wearable ‘human recorder system’ (Engadget): You affix this directly to your chest that lets you monitor heart rate, body surface temperature and movement.
- 10 major challenges that confront medical education over the next decade (Kevin, MD): One solution might be Med20course.com
- Video Blogging Med School (Doctor Anonymous): Not only a few videos, but a lot of videos day by day between June and January.
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