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...qualified to deal with the diagnosis and treatment of antenatal depression. At NYU, Lusskin runs a program designed to educate ob-gyns about the symptoms of prenatal mood disorders so they can identify the problem early. Lusskin says even though depression-screening tests are helpful, asking the patient simple questions about her mood can go a long way. "There is no substitute for asking the patient how she feels," she says...
Sharing data - as well as giving people full access to their digitized health records - is being championed by deBronkart, now an online activist known as "e-patient Dave." He has teamed up with Dr. Daniel Sands, the physician who helped him kick his cancer into remission in 2007, to co-chair the newly created Society for Participatory Medicine, which encourages patients to learn as much as they can about their health and also helps doctors support patients on this data-intensive quest. (See the top 10 scientific discoveries...
...medical community is watching such Patient 2.0 endeavors with a mix of admiration and trepidation. Clinical trials take a long time because they're rigorously controlled, with close attention paid to sampling bias and methodology. "Traditional, long-standing, peer-reviewed ways of testing new treatments and interventions is not going to go out the window," says Dr. Sharon Murphy, a pediatric oncologist who organized the IOM conference. "There is a strong scientific underpinning that is lacking in this Web 2.0 stuff." (Read "Does Tele-Therapy Work...
Concerned that too many ALS patients pursue sketchy treatments they discover online, Bedlack and about 40 other directors of ALS clinics set up a Twitter feed in April where patients can ask questions about off-label therapies. A team of doctors then investigates each query and posts their medical opinion online. "Everyone's heart is in the right place, but not everyone has the knowledge to do this the right way," Bedlack says of the Patient 2.0 movement...
...nervous coming out,” Gridley said. “After I lost the first game, I slowed down a little bit and just started playing more consistently and then was able to build up and hit harder and harder and more winners. You just have to be patient, work your cross-courts, hook them off the court, and then wait until the court is open to go down the line...