Two recent cover stories on online health:

IN USA TODAY, JULY 14
"How the Internet is Changing Medicine" (A Special Four-Page Cover Package)

The introduction to the cover package begins, "In ever-growing numbers, patients clutching Internet printouts are marching into doctors' offices nationwide, sometimes knowing more about their disease and ways to treat it than their physiciansŠ." The issue includes the following articles:

• Millions scour the Web for medical information
• Patients find emotional support on the Net
• Personal hunt for help finds advice, rants, friends
• Doctors prescribe: Take 2 aspirin and e-mail me at once
• Take dose of caution when shopping online
• Privacy could be dead on arrival
• Guidelines, libraries offer cures for Web confusion
• A healthy selection of top sites
• How to diagnose good sites
• Millions put trust in drkoop.com

IN THE MEDICAL TRIBUNE, JULY 22
"[A Doc's] Guide To Becoming Web Savvy-Medical consumers with Internet smarts are changing the doctor-patient relationship" by Sarah Albert

The article begins, "Increasingly, patients are surfing the Internet seeking the latest medical news, clinical advice and support groups. "In the last six months, health has become hot on the Internet" says Jay R. Rosan, M.D., executive vice president and co-founder of the Web site Intelihealth."

Published in The Ferguson Report, Number 5, July 1999

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