Consider the Source

If you search the Internet for health information, check the source of the information you are reading.

Is the web site produced by a credible medical center, association, organization or governmental agency? Does the web site give you contact names and addresses? Be crticial in your reading on the Internet.

A group of researchers from the University of Michigan Health System reported in the August 1 issue of Cancer that much of the health information on the Internet is inaccurate, misleading or not reviewed by doctors. When searching for information on a type of cancer called Ewing's sarcoma, the researchers discovered that almost half the sites had information that had not been reviewed by doctors, and 6 percent of the sites had wrong information and other sites were misleading.

- From The University of Texas-Houston Health Science Center's Lifetime Health Letter

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