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ConferencesAttended Medicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada) Accepted AbstractsMedicine 2.0'08 (Toronto, Canada)Inside the Health Blogosphere: Governance, Quality and the New Opinion Leaders Introduction: Although health-related blogs are exploding in number on the Web, there has been very little examination of the governance of these blogs. In light of criticism from various sectors (especially from prominent members of the lay media, and from the clinical community) over the quality and governance of health blogs, I wished to undertake an empirical analysis of the governance of the most popular health blogs on the Web. Further, I wished to compare the content of health blogs to...
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