Also with us, Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine and director of Health Literacy and Learning Program at Northwestern University.

NPR: Confronting Misconceptions About Cancer Prevention

Also thanks to Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine and director of Health Literacy and Learning Program at the Northwestern University.

NPR: Confronting Misconceptions About Cancer Prevention

The quantitative approach to networking has been exacerbated by technology, says psychiatrist Dr. Reef Karim, an assistant clinical professor at UCLA and director of The Control Center in Beverly Hills, CA. Social media networks like LinkedIn, Facebook and Twitter offer a continuous feedback loop, where success may be graded by follower counts and rabid updating.

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Joining us now to talk about this glut of information is Michael Wolf, assistant professor of medicine, director of health literacy and learning at the Northwestern University.

NPR: Confronting Misconceptions About Cancer Prevention

Professor David Heymann, a former assistant director general for health security and environment at the World Health Organization, said there had historically been a split between the industrialised and developing countries.

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The report reflects what Dr. Yolanda Wimberly, assistant professor of clinical pediatrics at the Morehouse School of Medicine and the medical director for the Center for Excellence in Sexual Health, sees in the clinics where she works.

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Professor Latanya Sweeney, director of the Data Privacy Lab at Harvard, along with her research assistant and two students scraped data on 1, 130 people of the now more than 2, 500 who have shared their DNA data for the Personal Genome Project.

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