Online Child Safety Laws Could Help or Hurt – 2 Pediatricians Explain What’s Likely to Work and What Isn’t
Image: Kids need to be protected online. The trick is figuring out how. Justin Lambert Creative/DigitalVision via Getty Images Society has a complicated relationship with adolescents. We want to protect them as children and yet launch them into adulthood. Adolescents face risks from testing out independence, navigating peer relationships, developing an identity and making mistakes […]
Is It Appropriate to Share Health Information on Social Media?
Social media is widely used for exchanging news, photos and opinions. But today, it’s also being used by patients to share health information with their physicians. Some 65 percent of millennials and 43 percent of all adults think it’s okay to contact doctors about health concerns by posting on their social media pages or through […]
Trending Physicians Take to Social Media
Repeated run-ins with insurance companies can infuriate David Rubin, MD. As chief of Gastroenterology, Hepatology and Nutrition at the University of Chicago Medicine, he is invested in helping his patients with inflammatory bowel disease. So when insurance companies refuse to cover his patients’ medications, Rubin turns to an untraditional platform for physicians: Twitter. Last year, […]
The Illusion of Connection
Looking at youth culture with 10 years of social media effects By Tone Stockenström In barely a decade, social media has upended the way we interact with our friends, families, co-workers and the world at large. Many teenagers know no other way of socializing without web-based applications and text messaging as an option. The constant […]
