According to a study released on 30 October 2006 by the Pew Internet & American Life Project, a Washington, D.C. nonprofit research group,113 millions of adults in the U.S. have gone online for medical advice and research. The search found about 10 million Americans search the Internet each day for health information, three-fourths of those were reassured that they could make an appropriate decision after their web search. However, few of these searchers pay close attention to the source and date of the information they had found . This could pose problems because medicine changes so rapidly that online medical information could be outdated.
To view the Pew Internet & American Life Project : http://www.pewinternet.org/PPF/r/190/report_display.asp
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