Source Reliability Issues
Last Revision Date: Monday, 10-Sep-2001 22:07:08 EDT
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- OncoLink
in the News: "Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility,
Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish" - OncoLink
is featured in an article in the May 23, 2001 version of the Journal of
the American Medical Association, in the article, "Health
Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in
English and Spanish". The research for this report was funded by the
California HealthCare Foundation to RAND, and the Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
- CNet
News - Web firms settle fraud charges (4/6/2000)- Three
Internet companies that offered products claiming to cure everything from
arthritis to cancer settled federal fraud charges and agreed to repay their
customers, government regulators said.
- CNNfn:
The Ethics of Online Health - Digital medical industry
faces tough issues of ethics, access.
- OncoLink@ASCO: The Internet for Oncologists: Hunting for Genes on the World Wide Web
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OncoLink FAQ: Evaluating Cancer Web Sites, an editorial by the OncoLink Directors (June 1997) - This document includes a list of key features to look for when using a medical web site. |
- OncoLink:
Federal Trade Commission's "Operation Cure.all" Targets Internet
Health Fraud - June 24, 1999
- Business Week:
A Cyber Revolt in Health Care - As the Net is bringing
health care into the 21st century; patients are finding new power through
the Web.
- The Chicago
Tribune: Internet Offers Medical Advice, but Watch Your Step
- CNN:
Medical misinformation on the information superhighway (8/30/95)
- CNN:
On-Line Medicine - Cures in our computers? (8/27/95)
- FDA/DHHS:
"FDA and the Internet" (October 1996) - Transcript
of a public hearing concerning the promotion of medical products on the
Internet.
- FDA: Health
Information On-Line (FDA Consumer, v30 n5, 6/96) - An
article from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Describes that access to
health information on the Internet and from on-line services can be
convenient and empowering, but it also has its pitfalls.
- Good Housekeeping:
On-Line Health Advice: Should you trust it?- This
excellent article reviews the issues related to on-line health information.
OncoLink is proud to be one of only nine sites on their "Where
to get the best info" page.
- Health Care Experts Repeat Web Warning - Washington, DC (April 28): Medical experts said today that the Internet can be a valuable source of health information but again warned that it can also lead consumers dangerously astray.
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Hotwired: HotSeat: If it Ducks Like a Quack - An outstanding RealAudio based interview with John H. Renner, M.D. and Wiliam Silberg of the Journal of the American Medical Assoication (JAMA). They discuss many issues surrounding medical misinformation on the Internet and credibility of web sites providing medical information. There is a related editorial in JAMA 1997;277:1244-1245. |
- JAMA:
Rating Health Information on the Internet: Navigating to Knowledge or to
Babel? (JAMA. 1998;279:611-614) - OncoLink's Editor's
Choice program was one of 14 choosen for evaluation by the authors.
- JNCI: At
Last, Doctors Begin to Jump Online (JNCI 88:22 p1610-11, 1996) - a
news article in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute describing the
increasing use of the Internet by physicians.
- New England
Journal of Medicine: The Internet and the Journal (10/19/95) - The
OncoLink Editors advocate using the Internet as a venue for the exchange of
medical information. Reply written in response to an editorial in the New
England Journal of Medicine.
- McGraw-Hill: Dr.
Tom Linden's Guide to Online Medicine
- Newsday: Internet
can be hazardous to your health (3/26/96) - An op-ed
article that appeared in Newsday written by Marilynn Larkin, Internet
columnist and Contributing Editor, Oncology Times.
- Quackwatch- An
excellent site maintained by Stephen Barrett, M.D. devoted to providing
information about health fraud, quackery and intelligent decisionmaking.
While alternative medicine can be a useful component to treatment in some
cases, this site's Ten
Ways to Avoid Being Quacked is worthwhile for anyone investigating
alternative therapies, to prevent being taken advantage of by others who
might prey on one's personal vulnerability.
- TIME Magazine: A Web of Deceit (advice from TIME health columnist Christine Gorman) - This article addresses common misconceptions about health-related matters that often proliferate on the Internet. The article also addresses means for readers to help discern the truth in what they read online. OncoLink is cited as a particularly useful source of oncology information.
