After deleting duplicates and irrelevant hits, 246 relevant blog postings that were posted by 108 patients, mainly from the USA and the UK, were collected from different blogs, mainly in discussion groups on PE, DVT, heart valve replacement (HVR) and PT/INR self-testing equipment.
A regulatory staff of monitors would review every comment before posting it, to prevent ballot box stuffing, to delete postings that are unfair or malicious, to adjudicate and resolve disputes, and refer cases of suspected wrongdoing for further investigation.
Still others included requests for help locating missing friends and relatives -- postings that were hard to read with dry eyes.
Others question the utility of the often pedestrian web of e-mail and social media postings that are now the ubiquitous means of communication for young writers.
Since then, he has continued to criticize the Communist Party while advocating Western-style democracy through microblog postings that are often deleted as soon as they go up.
With all the other Guardian online comment spaces the moderators are, for obvious reasons, pretty strict in excluding postings that are not directly connected with the topic involved.
Even though the country was still volatile in the wake of the bloody rebellion that ousted Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi, the State Department did not include Libya on a list of dangerous postings that are high priority for extra security resources.
