Posts Tagged ‘health’

Erica
Anderson

Paging Dr. Google?

Monday, June 29th, 2009

Today I caught up with Susannah Fox, Associate Director at Pew Internet and American Life Project. Fox and I are both in New York City for Personal Democracy Forum, a two day event dedicated to how technology is changing politics.

I was fortunate enough to get a few minutes of Fox's time, who recently published a study with Pew called "The Social Life of Health Information." Hear what she has to say about years of public opinion polling  - what is has shown about patients, how they find health information, how the Internet has changed things...and how it has kept them just the same.

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John
Seng

It’s Never Too Late, Not Even 38

Tuesday, June 2nd, 2009

Sometimes, there's no better way to start the day than with some good, old-fashioned publicity. That happened early this morning when Spectrum VP Amanda Sellers dropped by to ask me if I'd seen today's WASHINGTON POST article mentioning the National Capital Tour de Cure that our firm is sponsoring. I had not, and still haven't seen the print version, but reading the article online completely made my day! (I'm chairing the ride.)

Read the story of 38-year-old American Diabetes Association employee Sara Sklaroff, who committed herself to the fundraising ride for diabetes before she even learned to ride a bike!

Hopefully by Sunday, June 14, Sara's courage and passion will have infected thousands of other Washington-area people with diabetes and their friends and family enough to register and ride in Tour de Cure.

If diabetes got the respect, attention and funding support that cancer does, maybe we'd all be closer to finding a cure. Please join or support Spectrum's "Spokes Persons" Tour de Cure team.

-John Seng, President and Founder

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