Methods. On February 20, 2007, we searched YouTube (www. youtube. com) using the
keywords vaccination and immunization. We included all unique videos with Englishlanguage …

BACKGROUND: The roll out of HPV immunization programs across the United States was
hindered by controversy. We tracked the debate in the United States through MySpace, then …

Background: Increasingly, governments, health care agencies, companies, and private groups
have chosen Second Life as part of their Web 2.0 communication strategies. Second Life …

It is becoming increasingly apparent that there is a tension between growing consumer
demands for access to information and a healthcare system that may not be prepared to meet …

Preliminary data from the field suggests that social media is becoming a powerful addition
to the health communicators’ toolkit. Although there is a great deal of interest in using social …

Social media has contributed positively to the interaction between proponents of medical
products and technologies and the public by permitting more direct interaction between these …

YouTube is a video-sharing platform that is increasingly utilized to share and disseminate
health-related information about immunization. Using a pre–post survey methodology, we …

Background: More people are searching for immunization information online and potentially
being exposed to misinformation and antivaccination sentiment in content and discussions …

Background: There is a large presence of provaccination and antivaccination content on the
Internet. The Internet has been identified as an important source for parents to seek and …

In the early 1980s, donor deferrals targeting men who have sex with men (MSM) and other
high-risk groups were implemented in response to the outbreak of HIV/AIDS. It has now been …