Resolving embarrassing medical conditions with online health information

Impact of Health Information Technology on Clinical Care for Patients with Chronic Medical Conditions

Case of Twins, Accompanied with Embarrassing Circumstances

Case of Twins, accompanied with embarrassing Circumstances. By M. Leveque, M. D. Madam R. 19 years of age, of small stature, and extremely delicate organization, became pregnant shortly after marriage. During the first three months she was much harrassed with giddiness and continual vomiting, which reduced her to such a state of emaciation and debility, that she was forced to use ass's milk for...

Predicting Medical Roles in Online Health Fora

Online health fora are increasingly visited by patients to get help and information related to their health. However, these fora are not limited to patients: a significant number of health professionals actively participate in many discussions. As experts their posted information are very important since, they are able to well explain the problems, the symptoms, correct false affirmations and g...

Measuring online health information seeking skills and its related factors in a middle-aged population

Background: Internet is an important source of online health information seeking. Middle-aged people, may face more health-threatening challenges if they lack seeking skills. Therefore, the evaluation of seeking skills on health information in middle-aged people needs to be further studied. Objectives: The purpose of this paper was to examine the Online Health Information-Seeking Skills (OHISS...

Resolving Translation Mismatches with Information Flow

Languages differ in the concepts and real-world entities for which they have words and grammatical constructs. Therefore translation must sometimes be a mat te r of approximating the meaning of a source language text rather than finding an exact counterpart in the target language. We propose a translation framework based on Situation Theory. The basic ingredients are an information lattice, a r...