SÁNCHEZ BOCANEGRA , Carlos Luis

Cuando se habla de información de salud en Internet, inmediatamente se piensa en información procedente de colecciones dirigidas por profesionales y por otras entidades que están en continua colaboración y creación de contenido. Esta es la fuente más ortodoxa y fiable. Pero el comportamiento de los pacientes y sus familiares en relación al...

Background: The Internet, and its popularity, continues to grow at an unprecedented pace. Watching videos online is very popular; it is estimated that 500 h of video are uploaded onto YouTube, a video-sharing service, every minute and that, by 2019, video formats will comprise more than 80% of Internet traffic. Health-related videos are very...

Videos are the most common, direct and easy way to transmit an idea or a message and they are one of the more popular ways people use to create and upload contents on the Internet. Youtube is a resource that makes this possible, but one of its weak points is that it hosts many mixed videos which are of low interest and can be considered as...

Diavideos1 is a web platform that collects trustworthy diabetes health videos from YouTube and offers them in a easy way. YouTube is a big repository of health videos, but good content is sometimes mixed with misleading and harmful videos such as promoting anorexia [1].Diavideos is a web portal that provides easy access to a repository of...

Background: Mobile phone health apps are increasingly gaining attention in oncological care as potential tools for supporting cancer patients. Although the number of publications and health apps focusing on cancer is increasing, there are still few specifically designed for the most prevalent cancers diagnosed: breast and prostate cancers....