Medicine & Health

Just half of adults with chronic conditions use the internet; but once online, they are avid consumers of health information.

Social networks for younger kids – Are online communities and avatar-based social worlds encouraging obesity?

Internet addiction in China has been described as a "severe social problem that could threaten the nation's future."

Now proven beyond a reasonable doubt: Women are more likely than men to look for health information online.

Keeping an eye on the Dr. Google vs. Dr. Microsoft horserace.

Loved ones not only influence your choice of school, car, or housing -- they might influence your choices about smoking, exercise, and food, even if they live hundreds of miles away.

MP3s, dishwashers, can openers, and Twitter are examples of "good enough" technologies.

That's the proportion of the U.S. public that believes that it is more important to conduct stem cell research that may result in new medical cures than to avoid destroying the potential life of embryos involved in such research.

12% of internet users participate in an online patient group.

Cancer "weather maps," the age of biology, and how cell-only adults really are different from landline users.