Start Here for Reliable Medical Sites on the Internet
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Start With One Of These Guides to Evaluate Web Sites
Medline Plus Guide to Health Web Surfing
Questions to ask about Web Sites with information about health and medicine. From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
A User's Guide to Finding and Evaluating Health Information on the Web
This Medical Library Association guide explains how to evaluation Internet sites that provide health information. Elements in the guidelines include sponsorship, currency, factual information, and audience.
More Information About Evaluating Consumer Health Information
Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
A 16 minute tutorial about how to evaluate Internet health information sites.
MedlinePlus: Evaluating Health Information
Links to a variety of Internet sites that advise consumers and health professionals about how to evaluate consumer health information on the Internet or in the news. From the National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health.
Have you tried Blekko?
Blekko is a relatively new search engine that ranks results by quality and bans spam sites and content farms. Blekko also uses hashtags to create custom search engines. Their hashtag /health will limit your results to sites deemed appropriate by blekko's /health editors.
Try a search! For example: lyme disease /health