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Is the Web Bad for Your Health?

Are digital house calls just what the doctor ordered, or bad medicine? Learn which sites deliver the most reliable medical info, and turn the Web into your personal health resource.

  

"Please turn your head to the side."

Point.

"Now cough."

Click.

"Again."

Click.

"Now take a deep breath and hold it."

Enter.

And then, faster than you can say Health Maintenance Organization, the check-up is over. But rather than sheepishly pulling on your clothes and driving home, you turn off your computer and make for the refrigerator. Can you imagine how many more people would actually go to the doctor if it were this easy?

Last year, an estimated 26 million Americans--the vast majority of them women--logged on to the growing number of health-related Web sites in search of answers to what ails them. Many found information that helped them make important decisions about their health care. Others received advice that was outdated, misleading, or even dangerous.

Like everything else online, health sites can be good or bad. The question is, how can you tell the difference?

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