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Study: Twitter can boost health research

While healthcare practitioners ponder the best way to incorporate social media into their lives or practices, Twitter may be a useful tool in gauging both feedback from consumers and for furthering research, according to a recent study. The study, from the University of British Columbia, found that over a six-month period, English-language tweets from a […]

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Infographic time: How and where are medical research dollars allocated?

Ever wonder where we direct the most medical research dollars? You guessed right – it’s cancer – as pointed out on blog The Incidental Economist, which lifted a series infographics from a January JAMA article on the “anatomy of medical research.” For instance, in 2013 the vast majority of compounds being developed were for cancer therapy – both chemotherapeutic […]

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