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Ask HN: How reliable is WebMD?
When reading about general stuff (like sugar or diet), not looking for simptoms?
- xiphias 9y agoIt has 18000 results just for weight loss, and if you look at different diets for weight loss, they are conflicting, so I wouldn't trust it. I think PubMed is still the best thing we've got: read medical publications directly, even those are not clear, but at least closer to the data source.
- assafmo 9y agoThanks!
- bimboop 9y agoPubMed Health (https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/), MEDLINE Plus (https://medlineplus.gov/ https://medlineplus.gov/), UpToDate Basics (https://www.uptodate.com/contents/table-of-contents/patient-information https://www.uptodate.com/contents/table-of-contents/patient-...) all better than WebMD. I am a medical librarian.
- assafmo 9y agoThanks! I'll have a look
- onuralp 9y agoAccording to this study[0] on the diagnostic (and triage) accuracy of online symptom checkers (including WebMD among others), the reliability is a coin toss. [0] http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480/ http://www.bmj.com/content/351/bmj.h3480/