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Stop Googling your health questions. Use these sites instead
Another day, another diet study. In one week, it's not unusual to find two studies on the same topic with contradictory conclusions — in this case, about what kind of eating would help people lose the most weight.
Those studies are not exceptional. There are at least 75 randomized controlled trials published every day — and that number continually increases. According to Google CEO Eric Schmidt, every couple of days we now create the same amount of information that we did from the dawn of civilization all the way up until 2003.
Part of this new knowledge includes an overwhelming quantity of health information. It's constantly produced, reproduced and transmitted to public…
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CrowdMed
CrowdMed is revolutionizing healthcare by harnessing ‘the wisdom of crowds’ to help solve even the world’s most difficult medical cases quickly and accurately online. After 4 years of development and refinement, CrowdMed’s patented prediction market technology can suggest diagnoses to real-world medical cases that have stumped doctors for years.
FindZebra
The search engine for difficult medical cases.
Human Dx
The Human Diagnosis Project (also referred to as "Human Dx" or "the Project") is a worldwide effort created with and led by the global medical community to build an online system that maps the best steps to help any patient.
How to Look Up Medical Information Online
If you feel confident you can discern the difference between high- and low-quality information, search away. “I encourage my younger or tech-savvy patients to go online,” Cocco says. Otherwise, proceed with caution.
How To Search for Health Information Online
There is so much on the internet these days that it can often be difficult to know where to turn, whom to trust, and what to believe, so it is important to have the right tools to know what sites are best and safest.
More Americans Go Online For Health-Care Information
An increasing number of Americans use the Internet to search for health or medical information, according to a recent Harris Interactive poll, and a large majority believe the information is at least somewhat reliable.
Online Health Information: Is It Reliable?
There are thousands of medical websites. Some provide reliable health information. Some do not. Some of the medical news is current. Some of it is not. Choosing which websites to trust is an important step in gathering reliable health information.
Patients Turn to the Internet for Health Information
The Internet is changing not just the way patients get medical information, but the way they interact with doctors, their families, and even with strangers.
Stop Googling your health questions. Use these sites instead
The challenge before us is this: how can we find and capitalize on all good information — and avoid wrong information — to have healthier lives and societies?
The 7 Best Websites To Search for Health Information
Contrary to how some might feel, I'm not totally against my patients googling symptoms. I actually like it when my patients take an active role in their health, but I have a couple of major cautions about doing this: 1) the health information you read may not apply to your particular situation and may not be relevant (thus freaking out is unnecessary) and 2) not all health information online is reliable.
Cochrane Library
The Cochrane Library (ISSN 1465-1858) is a collection of databases that contain different types of high-quality, independent evidence to inform healthcare decision-making.
EvidenceAlerts
EvidenceAlerts is an Internet service that notifies physicians and researchers about newly-published clinical studies. Researchers at the McMaster Health Information Unit find the highest quality studies, reviews, and evidence-based clinical practice guidelines from 127 premier clinical journals and these articles are rated by practicing physicians for clinical relevance and interest. Alerts are curated to your own clinical interests.
Health Evidence
To make evidence easily accessible while developing organizational and individual capacity for evidence-informed public health decision making.
Campbell Collaboration
The Campbell Collaboration is an international social science research network that produces high quality, open and policy-relevant evidence syntheses, plain language summaries and policy briefs.
PubMed
PubMed® comprises more than 32 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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