The language you use on Facebook can help indicate the kind of medical conditions you have with uncanny precision. — AFP
According to new preliminary American research, healthcare professionals could potentially use Facebook as a means of diagnosing conditions such as depression and diabetes.
Carried out by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania and Stony Brook University, the new study analysed the complete Facebook post history of 999 patients – around 20 million words – who had agreed to have their electronic medical record data linked to their Facebook profiles.
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