One of the main reasons we decided to build OrganizedWisdom Health is to help people get health information they can trust -- and weed out all of the Web sites that may be malicious, spam index, or out right quackery.
We just published an article on this topic over at Internet Evolution. You can read the full piece here titled, "Quack Alert: Avoiding Internet Health Scams".
Here are five quick steps informed consumers should take to protect themselves from malicious health information:
- Start your medical researching at trusted Health Search engines like OrganizedWisdom, Healthline, or Healia.
- Use trusted health sites that have been certified by accreditation directory URAC or feature HONcode seals on the homepage.
- Check the source of the information to see if it is sponsored or trying to sell something.
- Tell your doctor about the online health resources you typically use and ask him or her to recommend medical resources.
- Ask your local politicians and representatives to strengthen laws against medical fraud and resources for enforcement.
Internet Health scams is really present nowadays.. they tend to make the their clients believe that they know everything about health issues were in fact they only want to take advantage of the opportunities that the clients are really in need.
It is really advisable that when you need an information about health issues go directly to a reliable/recommended doctor to avoid being a victim of Health scam..
Dan
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Posted by: dan | May 26, 2008 at 11:56 AM