Researchers have collected Twitter data to study a wide range of topics. This growing body
of literature, however, has not yet been reviewed systematically to synthesize Twitter-related …

Social media data have been increasingly used to study biomedical and health-related
phenomena. From cohort-level discussions of a condition to population-level analyses of …

The remarkable upsurge of social media has dramatic impacts on health care research and
practice. Social media are reshaping health information management in a variety of ways …

This paper describes topics pertaining to the session,“Social Media Mining for Public Health
Monitoring and Surveillance,” at the Pacific Symposium on Biocomputing (PSB) 2016. In …

Public health thrives on high-quality evidence, yet acquiring meaningful data on a
population remains a central challenge of public health research and practice. Social …

Despite consistent declines in rates of cigarette use among adolescents in the last five
years, rates of marijuana use have remained constant, with marijuana being the most widely …

Aims There is a growing body of literature exploring the types of substance‐related content
and their portrayals on various social media platforms. We aimed to summarize how content …

Objectives. To use publicly accessible data from people who post to Twitter to rapidly
capture and describe the public's recent experiences with cannabis. Methods. We obtained …

In this article, we review existing research on the complementarity of social media data and
survey data for the study of public opinion. We start by situating our review in the extensive …

Background The use and acceptance of medicinal cannabis is on the rise across the globe.
To support the interests of public health, evidence relating to its use, effects, and safety is …