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Evaluating Health Information
I’m going to post this on my other blog, Libraries For My Friends, but I thought some of you might like it too:
MedlinePlus offers a great set of material on how to evaluate health information online. It includes links to …
- a flash tutorial called Evaluating Internet Health Information: A Tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
- 10 Things to Know about Evaluating Medical Resources on the Web (also available in Spanish) from the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine
- An article from the Harvard School of Public Health on Interpreting News on Diet: Research and the Mass Media
- Tips for the Savvy Supplement User: Making Informed Decisions and Evaluating Information from the Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition
A votre sante!
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