And then folks like Venus and Jill started working to educate and empower people to promote early detection and make sure that people were getting the care that they needed.

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Still more creative early-detection systems will begin to pull together illness information present in social-networking sites like Facebook and Twitter, allowing us to see changing disease patterns before they make the morning news.

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