>Date: Sun, 15 Aug 1999 21:49:33 -0400
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>August 16, 1999
>NUTRITION NEWS FOCUS
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>Today's Topic: Internet Information Remains Unhealthy
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>Nutrition News Focus has been warning readers to be skeptical of
>health information available via the Internet.  The lead story in the
>August 1999 issue of the respected medical journal Cancer reported a
>survey of 400 Web pages checked at random from about 27,000 entries
>on Ewing's sarcoma, a rare type of cancer.
>
>Fewer that half the pages contained information on medical treatment
>of the disease.  Almost 60% had peer-reviewed information from
>reliable sources.  But the rest had information that was not reliable
>or unknown.  The researchers determined that 6% of the pages
>contained information that was clearly wrong.  Details from the
>research are available from the University of Michigan
>(http://www.umich.edu/~newsinfo/Releases/1999/Jul99/r072699a.html),
>but the journal provides access only to subscribers.
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>HERE'S WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW: There are few ways you can be sure
>the information on a Web site is accurate.  One is to look for a
>logo stating the site subscribes to the HON Code (Health on the Net)
>principles.  Another, that is usually true, is to look for sites that
>are from the government (.gov) or universities (.edu).  Finally, you
>can verify a specific claim by doing your own literature search, as
>NNF explained last week.
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