Researchers from Boston Children's Hospital and Merck have built the beginnings of "digital phenotype" of insomnia and other sleep disorders based on data from Twitter. This study, published today in the Journal of Medical ...
Jun 11, 2015
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New research into the spread of misinformation on social media shows that 24 per cent of the messages posted on Twitter about human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccines could be classified as anti-vaccine, and many Twitter users ...
Jun 11, 2015
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Tweets regarding the Ebola outbreak in West Africa last summer reached more than 60 million people in the three days prior to official outbreak announcements, according to a study published in the June issue of the American ...
Jun 1, 2015
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Transgender and gender nonconforming people are at high risk for diseases such as AIDS and are vulnerable to depression and other mental health issues, but may be reluctant to disclose their identities to researchers due ...
May 20, 2015
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Some of the most popular social media sites are filled with images of extremely thin women that might be harmful to those who view them—whether they are seeking them or not, according to research from the University of ...
May 8, 2015
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Being stuck in bed, waiting for the flu to run its course, is pretty unpleasant. And it's also really boring. What else is there to do but search for symptoms online, and read entries about the flu on Wikipedia or WebMD or ...
Mar 4, 2015
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Social media has opened up a new digital world for psychology research. Four researchers will be discussing new methods of language analysis, and how social media can be leveraged to study personality, mental and physical ...
Feb 28, 2015
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Is the dress black and blue, or white and gold? That question is lighting up the Internet.
Feb 27, 2015
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Analyzing every marijuana-related Twitter message sent during a one-month period in early 2014, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found that the "Twitterverse" is a pot-friendly place. ...
Jan 22, 2015
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Johns Hopkins computers scientists, who have already used Twitter posts to track flu cases, say their techniques also show promise as a tool to gather important information about some common mental illnesses.
Dec 9, 2014
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