Hallberg's Picture of Health: Topics that ruled social media

Ebola caregivers
Nurse manager Jeanie Gaudette, right, helps Leah Kaul, a medical ICU nurse, into a second pair of gloves while practicing how to safely put on and take off the protective gear needed to treat an Ebola patient, Wednesday, Nov. 12, 2014, at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.
Jennifer Simonson / MPR News file

The Ice Bucket Challenge. Ebola. The death of Robin Williams. All were trending topics on Facebook and Google this year.

In this episode host Tom Crann and Dr. Jon Hallberg discuss the medical topics that were big on social media in 2014.

They also discussed how social media could impact awareness of other diseases and crowdfunding in the future.

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