Looking up your health symptoms on the Internet can be a traumatizing experience. Some websites are riddled with incomplete or inaccurate guidance, leaving you feeling like death is around the corner. Meanwhile, drug companies pitch you with online ads for...
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Online research for personal medical issues may be a healthy practice.
How Reliable Is Health Information Online? Pew Study Sheds Light
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Axel Toelke (left) and Ijad Madisch, the CEO and co-founder of Berlin startup ResearchGate.
ResearchGate’s 2013 Resolution: Make Money
Since opening its doors in 2008, ResearchGate has aimed to be the Facebook for scientists — a website for medical researchers to connect and share their findings. But following Facebook’s disastrous initial public offering last year, ResearchGate is spending 2013 trying...
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Medical identity theft affected an estimated 1.5 million people in the U.S., according to the Ponemon Institute.
How Medical Identity Theft Can Give You a Decade of Headaches
Arnold Salinas knows a lot about the person who stole his identity. He’s 5-foot-9, 190 pounds. He pays for pizzas with forged checks, defaulted on a $17,000 car loan and has traveled the country, racking up speeding tickets and thousands...
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