People are turning to the Internet increasingly often to look for the answers to their health questions. How are people using the Web for health information, and how reliable is the information they find? Will the Internet empower patients or overwhelm them? Find out about e-patients and how they could change health care.
Guests: Susannah Fox, associate director of the Pew Internet and American Life Project and principal author of the Project's survey reports on e-patients and online health. The Web sites she mentions are: the Pew Internet and American Life Project
Medical Library Association
Food Allergy and Anaphylaxis Network
DrGreene.com
Gilles Frydman, Founder & President of ACOR, the Association of Cancer Online Resources, the largest online support group for cancer patients.
Dr. Alan Greene and Cheryl Greene, Founders of Dr.Greene.com, the most popular pediatric site on the Internet. More than a million people visit the site each month.
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