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UPDATED: Friday, January 13, 2006

Senior Health Sites

Posted on Wednesday, September 01, 2004
 

In this column I generally address issues concerning your computer's health. But did you know that there are many things you can do with your computer to keep yourself happy and healthy?

For example, last month I talked about online gaming—something that definitely keeps me happy—but what about keeping physically fit?

With an Internet connection it is easy to gain access to any kind of information you want. Typically, some of the most overlooked websites have been health sites. But that’s changing.

Visits to health and medical websites are up. According to Hitwise, which monitors Internet use, 27 percent of Internet users clicked on to a health site in May, compared with 19 percent one year ago.

Surveys show that consumers are doing a pretty good job of finding credible health information on the Web, but there is a lot more that goes ignored.

Here is a list of some excellent health sites that often get overlooked.


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  • www.MedlinePlus.gov
    This site is full of useful and credible information. It is sponsored by the National Institutes of Health and its National Library of Medicine. The site is the world’s largest medical library.
  • www.YourDiseaseRisk.Harvard.edu
    This site helps assess risks for diabetes, heart disease, stroke, cancer, and osteoporosis. The risk assessment questionnaires were designed and reviewed by experts at the Harvard School of Public Health.
  • www.MayoClinic.com
    ”Reliable information for a healthier life” is the tagline on this site produced by the Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research. The site is a smorgesboard of timely health-related topics, quizzes you can take, health tips, recipes, free e-newsletter, and “Ask a Specialist.”
  • www.HealthWeb.org
    A one-stop shop for non-commercial health sites, HealthWeb.org is sponsored by the National Library of Medicine. If a site appears in the list on this site you know that it has been evaluated by one of more than two dozen medical libraries that support the site.

In addition to the site listed here, there are hundreds of other useful health sites on the Web. Many provide valuable information, while others may have information that is unreliable or misleading.

If you find one you like, be sure to evaluate its content and credibility. The National Cancer Institute offers a short guide on how to do this at http://nccam.nci.nih.gov/health/webresources/index.htm.

Have a computer or technology-related question for Joe? E-mail your question to: askjoe@ericksonmail.com.



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