Use the Health on the Net site-checker to the right to evaluate these websites. Would you trust information from these sites?

• Alternative Medicine
  [http://altmedicine.about.com]
• Self Health Resource Center
  [http://www.shrc.net/Merchant2/merchant.mvc?Screen=SFNT&Store_Code=shrc]
• AHRQ: Consumers and Patients
  [http://www.ahcpr.gov/consumer]
• ICNR
  [http://www.icnr.com/index.html]
• Oncolink
  [http://www.oncolink.upenn.edu]

No "about" section or contact information? People who publish websites are required to provide contact information when they register their site. To find out who is registered as a contact for a particular site, do some detective work. Perform a "whois" search.

An Important Note: These links are provided as teaching examples. Their inclusion in this list does not constitute an endorsement nor critique of the content of these sites.

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