HealthMap (http://www.healthmap.org/en) is a global disease alert mashup produced by the Children’s Hospital Informatics Program at Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences & Technology. Disease outbreaks reported by a variety of worldwide sources are plotted on a Google map. Click a pointer on the map to link to the original report.
David Rothman’s [...]
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Meredith Farkas summarizes a new Pew Internet & American Life report in her blog Information Wants To Be Free.
In brief, the report finds that survey respondents who had experienced one of 10 types of problems that had a potential connection to the government or government-provided information (including a serious illness or health [...]
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