The numbers concerning Internet use continue to grow. It seems like everyone is using it and actually,

4 billion today, 665 millions just few month ago

there are just some special segments of the population who are not using it – Internet has joined the mainstream media.

For popular health search terms, hundreds of million of web pages are quickly available through the popular search engines.

Concerning health 2.0 resources, already 46 million results for the search term “health blog”.

For example, 75% of e-patients with a chronic condition

say their last health search affected a decision about how to treat an illness or condition,

compared with 55% of other e-patients.

86% of internet users living with disability or chronic illness have looked online for information about at least one of 17 health topics, compared with 79% of internet users with no chronic conditions.