Tips for Searching the Net for Health News (US) http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Apr/24/magazine/WEBHEALTH24B.htm Gathering health information on the World Wide Web can be as easy and efficient as typing in a few search words. Or it can be frustrating, confusing and time-consuming. Some places to look: GOVERNMENT/NONPROFIT SITES Most major sites allow you to search for terms within the site. www.nih.gov National Institutes of Health www.fda.gov Food and Drug Administration www.cdc.gov Centers for Disease Control and Prevention www.mayohealth.org Mayo Clinic www.americanheart.org American Heart Association SEARCH ENGINES Typing key search words into any search engine, from Excite to Yahoo, will find health information on the Web. For more comprehensive searches that combine results from various popular search engines, some people use "metasearch" engines. Among them are: huskysearch.cs.washington.edu www.dogpile.com www.metacrawler.com WEB TUTORIALS Among the sites that will give you detailed instructions on how to search the Web are these: www.learnthenet.com Learn the Net is a privately held company in San Francisco that delivers educational products and services. www.microsoft.com/insider/ internet Computer goliath Microsoft offers a "complete Internet guide and Web tutorial." www.law.ubc.ca/links/jurist/irvslist.html: Sponsored by the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law, this offers links to many how-to sites. ------------ On-line Learning Series of Courses http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker/course.htm Member: Association for International Business ------------------------------- Excerpt from CSS Internet News (tm) ,-~~-.____ For subscription details email / | ' \ [log in to unmask] with ( ) 0 SUBINFO CSSINEWS in the \_/-, ,----' subject line. ==== // / \-'~; /~~~(O) "On the Internet no one / __/~| / | knows you're a dog" =( _____| (_________| http://www.bestnet.org/~jwalker -------------------------------