Web Sites Offer an Extension of Your Office.
Health-related Web sites logged about 30 million "hits" last year from consumers hungry for medical advice and information. The figure is expected to double this year, says Dr. Nancy Dickey, former president of the American Medical Association. If that kind of response sounds appealing, consider developing a...

Consumer health web page.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a Web page, Consumer Health Information for You and Your Family (www.fda.gov/consumer), and a related e-newsletter, FDA Consumer Health Information (www.fda.gov/consumer/consumerenews.html). The Web page provides FDA news bulletins; links to information about the products that FDA regulates, including food, human and...

Skeptical medical reference: helping patrons find critical resources for consumer health issues.
Introduction With the popularization of the Internet, there has been a vast proliferation of consumer health material available to the public. Unfortunately, this has only accelerated a pre-existing trend- the fact that much of the material made available is unproven, unreliable, or outright fraud. This requires librarians...

Recommended by teens for teens.
The Mid-Hudson Library System Libraries' (NY) Health Information Project recently released a list of new teen-recommended DVDs and top-ranked websites for students, parents and educators nationwide. All of the DVDs, which are current and youth focused, are suitable for use with student groups or in classrooms and have public...

Evaluating World Wide Web-based foot care information.
Introduction The NHS is encouraging individuals to be increasingly proactive in their healthcare, promoting the Internet as a source of patient information (Department of Health and NHS Executive, 1998). As the Internet is increasingly used by patients, it is important to ensure that individuals source relevant and...

The Internet: friend or foe when providing patient education?
The Internet has changed how patients with cancer learn about and cope with their disease. Newly diagnosed patients with cancer often have complex educational and informational needs related to diagnosis and treatment. Nurses frequently encounter time and work-related constraints that can interfere with the provision of patient education. They...

Focusing on health information: how to assess information quality on the internet.
Introduction IN MARCH 2002, THE BRITISH MEDICAL JOURNAL (BMJ) PUBLISHED A COLLECTION of articles around the theme of quality assessment of health information on the internet. The number and variety of the BMJ articles reflect the amount of work being carried out in the field of health...

Managing knowledge in health services.
Booth, Andrew, and Walton, Graham, eds Managing knowledge in health services. London: Library Association Publishing, 2000. 357p 45.00 [pounds sterling] hard ISBN 1856043215 THIS BOOK IS A SUCCESSOR TO MICHAEL CARMEL'S HEALTH CARE LIBRARIANSHIP AND INFORmation work. Although the second edition of this was published just five...

The paper GP.
Barclay, Donald A and Halsted, Deborah D, The Medical Library Association consumer health reference service handbook. New York: Neal-Shuman Publishers, 2001. 200 pp. + CD-ROM US$59.95 soft ISBN 1555704182 THE MEDICAL LIBRARY ASSOCIATION CONSUMER HEALTH REFERENCE SERVICE HANDBOOK is designed as a practical guide for librarians facing...

Omnigraphics.
Omnigraphics 2050 Elmweood Avenue Sharon Hills, PA 19079 $78.00 Each 1-800-234-1340 Three new titles in the Omnigraphics 'Health Reference Series' provide important reference overviews for any in-depth health library collection, and are highly recommended picks. Dawn Matthews edits Child Abuse Sourcebook...