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Is laughter the best medicine?

Lloyd Price

The ‘laughter line’, founded in 2004 is a phone line that connects you with other people to have a giggle (it is contagious after all). The researchers concluded that patients would benefit a great deal from humour being used within clinical environments more often.

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A Matter of Trust, Perception, Risk, and Uncertainty – The Big Issues Raised by the Acquisition of PatientsLikeMe and Other Patient Data Transactions

Health Populi

And it has become increasingly clear that people/consumers/patients are generally interested in sharing information that would help others and/or help themselves. A 2018 national survey found that 39% of U.S. The Internet cloud was not yet in the sky; data as a service was a business model barely in diapers. Probably not so great.