SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Professional social network LinkedIn took the wraps off a tool that allows jobseekers to apply for open positions by sending their LinkedIn profiles directly to prospective employers.

The feature is launching as LinkedIn tries to keep its service ahead of the curve amid competition from new networks such as Google’s Google +, which allows users to segregate contacts into a professional category.

The feature, known as Apply With LinkedIn, allows employers to add a button to online job listings so applicants can click on it and send their information directly to the company. Applicants have an opportunity to personalize the information with a cover letter.

For the employer, “it enables them to prioritize better,” said Deep Nishar, senior vice president of products and user experience at LinkedIn.

To some extent, the new service streamlines a process that already takes place, Nishar said. For example, prospective employers often already check applicants’ LinkedIn profiles for insights such as if they know employees at the hiring company.

Prospective employer companies already using the service include movie service Netflix, daily deals service LivingSocial, photo site Photobucket — and, of course, LinkedIn itself.

LinkedIn has 100 million users, but a majority of them don’t visit the site regularly. The new Apply With LinkedIn feature will prompt jobseekers to update their profiles by alerting them of the date of their last update.

The tool comes on the heels of LinkedIn’s March introduction of the LinkedIn Today service, which allows members to see news stories that are popular within their networks or industries.

It also comes as Google’s new network steamrolled past the 20 million user mark in just a few weeks, according to ComScore. Nishar said competition helped LinkedIn stay sharp.

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In this amazing video, Sharry Edwards from Sound Health Options explains how voice profiling has revealed fascinating insights into the various reasons people develop symptoms of Parkinsons disease. This presentation follows up voice profiles Sharry did for four guests on one of my Parkinsons Recovery radio shows last month. Sharry has identified amazing commonalities across the persons she profiled during the show.

Even more interesting is her analysis of the reason Michael J. Fox currently experiences the symptoms of Parkinson’s.  are you at all curious about the cause of his symptoms? you can get the answer by watching this video.

Sharry takes you through the process of voice profiling step by step. She also offers an amazing explanation of the many reasons symptoms can evolve and  what you can do about them when they do.

Robert Rodgers, Ph.D.Parkinsons RecoveryRoad to Recovery from Parkinsons Disease

DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (researchandmarkets.com/research/3b0638/prostate_cancer) has announced the addition of GlobalData ‘s new report “Prostate Cancer – BRIC Drug Forecasts and Treatment Analysis to 2020″ to their offering.

“Prostate Cancer – BRIC Drug Forecasts and Treatment Analysis to 2020”

our pharmaceutical report, Prostate Cancer – Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) Drug Forecasts and Treatment Analysis to 2020 is an essential source of information and analysis on the prostate cancer therapeutics market in the emerging BRIC countries. the report provides comprehensive information on prostate cancer, highlighting the treatment guidelines. it identifies and analyzes the key trends shaping and driving the prostate cancer therapeutics market in Brazil, Russia, India and China. it analyzes the treatment usage patterns in the BRIC prostate cancer therapeutics market. the report also provides insights into the competitive landscape and the emerging players expected to significantly alter the positions of the existing market leaders. the report provides valuable insights into the pipeline products within the global prostate cancer sector. it quantifies the unmet need in the BRIC prostate cancer therapeutics market, highlighting the opportunity for future players.

This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by our team of industry experts.

the scope of the report includes:

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Prostate Cancer – Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) Drug Forecasts and Treatment Analysis to 2020 is an essential source of information and analysis on the prostate cancer therapeutics market in the emerging BRIC countries. the report provides comprehensive information on prostate cancer, highlighting the treatment guidelines. it identifies and analyzes the key trends shaping and driving the prostate cancer therapeutics market in Brazil, Russia, India and China. it analyzes the treatment usage patterns in the BRIC prostate cancer therapeutics market. the report also provides insights into the competitive landscape and the emerging players expected to significantly alter the positions of the existing market leaders. the report provides valuable insights into the pipeline products within the global prostate cancer sector. it quantifies the unmet need in the BRIC prostate cancer therapeutics market, highlighting the opportunity for future players.

This report is built using data and information sourced from proprietary databases, primary and secondary research and in-house analysis by a team of industry experts.

the Prostate Cancer Therapeutics Market was Driven by the Growth in Patient Volume and Annual Cost of Hormone-refractory Prostate Cancer Therapy

the authors analysis finds that the prostate cancer therapeutics market in BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China) is attractive and is primarily driven by the growth in the hormone-refractory prostate cancer therapeutics market. the growth in the number of total patients receiving treatment and increase in the annual cost of hormone-refractory prostate cancer therapy is expected to offset the impact of generic erosion in hormone-dependent prostate cancer therapy. the patient volume was driven by growth in treatment usage patterns such as diseased population, treatment seeking population, diagnosis population and prescription population. the annual cost of prostate cancer therapy between 2001 and 2009 was driven by increased uptake of chemotherapy using Taxotere. Expected launch of new therapies such as Provenge (sipuleucel-T) and Jevtana (cabazitaxel) will further drive the annual cost of therapy.

Hormone therapy using combination of hormone therapies such as LHRH agonists and androgen receptor antagonists is a prominent treatment regime. Taxotere is the current standard of care for patients that stop responding to hormone therapy. the introduction of new therapies for metastatic prostate cancer is expected to expand the market further.

• 1 Overview
• 2 Disease Overview
• 3 Market Characterization
• 4 Competitor Assessment
• 5 Pipeline Assessment
• 6 Unmet need and Target Product Profile
• 7 Strategic Assessment
• 8 Company Profiles
• 9 M&A Analysis
• 10 Appendix

Companies Mentioned:

For more information visit researchandmarkets.com/research/3b0638/prostate_cancer.

Earlier this baseball season, San Diego Padres pitcher Tim Stauffer diagnosed himself with appendicitis after consulting a medical site on his iPhone. he informed his trainer and soon after, his appendix was successfully removed.

Stauffer is among the 8 in 10 Internet users hitting the Web to get their health-related questions answered, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project. although medical websites such as Web MD and Mayo Clinic provide key insights into identifying and treating various ailments, experts warn they also make it easy for people to misdiagnosis health problems and can lead to “cyberchondria,” or anxiety borne from online health-related searches.

“It’s important to stay up on health-related information … but because information on the Web is so unfathomably plentiful, so readily available, and so unsorted, it’s easy for someone to jump to the conclusion that they have a brain tumor when in fact it’s just a sinus infection,” according to Judy Segal, professor of English at the University of British Columbia who works on the cultural studies of medicine.

To complicate matters further, a lot of the medical information available for free online is actually accurate and reliable, experts say.

“The problem is, though, that even when the information is reliable, our ability to know what to do with it isn’t,” Segal told MyHealthNewsDaily. “Medical problems are often complicated, and someone without a medical background may jump to false conclusions.”

Segal believes the Internet encourages hypochondria, itself a medical condition. Hypochondriacs are people so concerned about particular diseases that they tend to not trust physicians when they are told there is nothing wrong with them. [Read: Top 10 Controversial Psychiatric Disorders ]

“When there’s so much information out there, it’s easy to focus on what could be possible, even if the chances are very slim,” Segal said. “The Internet brings out the hypochondriac in all of us.”

A 2008 Microsoft report called “Cyberchondria: Studies of the Escalation of Medical Concerns in Web Search” also supports this theory. (Msnbc.com is jointly owned by NBC Universal and Microsoft.)

The Web has potential to fuel anxieties in people who have little or no medical training, and the large volumes of medical information, some of which is erroneous, may mislead users with health concerns,” the report states. “This can lead users to believe that common symptoms are likely the result of serious illnesses.”

Although most people go online to be reassured and learn something that makes them feel better, they don’t always leave with the sense of relief, said Arthur Barksy, a professor of psychiatry at Harvard Medical School.

“In most cases, people became far more worried after they turn the computer off than they were in the first place,” Barsky said. “People are exposed to the myriad of rare and awful diseases out there that they had never heard of that share their symptoms.”

Another variable fueling the growth of cyberchondria is pharmaceutical advertisements.

“Pharmaceutical companies are not only branding products, they are also branding conditions,” she said. “Magazine ads and television commercials tell consumers that their indigestion or their constipation – or even their poor mood – could actually be something quite ominous. someone watching at home could start to wonder if they have a more serious condition.”

American adults still rely on traditional sources of health information, even as many deepen their engagement with the online world, according to recent research from the Pew Internet and American Life Project.

Many Web surfers seeking out information on medical sites are looking for insights from people who are battling the same issues, said Susannah Fox, the Associate Director of the Pew Internet American Life Project.

“Doctors can’t provide the same level of detail as a fellow patient can about what it feels like to go through a certain treatment or to live with a condition,” said Fox, who is also the principle author of a March 2010 report on how the Internet affects how Americans interact with their health professionals.

Six in ten Web users living with a chronic disease access peer-generated health information, such as blog posts, doctor/hospital ratings, podcasts or customized health news updates to learn about medical treatments and procedures.

The access to medical information on the Web, however, has changed the doctor-patient relationship, the University of British Columbia’s Segal noted. Many patients arrive at a visit with print outs of information about new pills on the market or a condition they think they may have developed.

“It’s great that patients are becoming more informed,” she said. “However, it becomes a concern when people come in and think they know more about a condition than the doctor. you can learn a lot from being a patient, but doctors have years of medical training, experience and context that someone looking for information on the Internet does not.”

The Internet’s effects on medicine are not all negative. In many cases, it is bringing people closer to doctors in new, innovative ways. for example, ZocDoc.com — which launched in 2007 — allows people in Chicago, San Francisco, New York and Washington D.C. to book a doctor’s appointment online as though it was a dinner reservation. this concept gives people the opportunity to find a doctor quickly and on demand.

ZocDoc users can search for a certain type of a physician — from a pediatrician to a radiologist, psychologist or eye doctor, among others — and then narrow their search by selecting those that accept their insurance provider. Images of the doctors then appear on the screen, along with timeslots in which they are available to see a patient.

The doctor is in — online Some doctor are experimenting with online alternatives to doctor visits. Jay Parkinson — a doctor in Brooklyn, N.Y., who is often referred to as “The Doctor of the Future” — has also been a game-changer in the medical field by being accessible to patients beyond the confines of an office. In fact, he has no office — he runs most of his practice online.

After completing a residency in pediatrics and one in preventive medicine at Johns Hopkins, Parkinson began making house calls to patients in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, to avoid a large business overhead. he allowed patients to have access to his Google calendar so they could see his availability. he also offered them the flexibility to make payments through PayPal and even emailed, instant messaged and video chatted with them to follow up on a visit. News of his creative Web 2.0 methods created much buzz and his business grew.

“I look at email and instant messenger as augmenting real in-person relationships, especially when it comes to something as important as a doctor-patient relationship,” Parkinson told MyHealthNewsDaily.

“It’s pretty obvious this is how more and more people are communicating nowadays. If being a good doctor is also about being a good communicator, we should meet patients where they are. my young patients were online and wanted to communicate ‘normally,’ so embracing this route was a natural step.”