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Anatomy of an Online Health Scam, Canadian Competition Bureau
Shows a mock-up of a webpage advertising a health scam - and explains the identifying characteristics of such a page.
Beware of Online Cancer Fraud, U.S. Food & Drug Administration
Canadian Health Care Anti-fraud Association
Consumer Health Webwatch
Criteria for assessing the quality of health information on the internet
Evaluating health information, New York Online Access to Health
Evaluating internet health information: a tutorial from the National Library of Medicine
Evaluating web pages: techniques to apply & questions to ask
Evaluating web resources checklist - University of Alberta
Health Fraud, Canadian Competition Bureau
Includes information on the Bureau's "Project False Hope" program aimed at cancer cure fraud on the Internet.
Health on the Net - Code of Conduct Principles
How to evaluate health information on the internet, National Cancer Institute
Internet for health and safety
Tutorial from Intute: Virtual Training
Making the right choice on the web: safe surfing for health care information
From the Yale-New Haven Hospital website.
Medical Library Association: User's guide to finding and evaluating health information on the web
Medical products and the internet, Australian Government, Dept. of Health and Aging
MedlinePlus - Evaluating health information
MedlinePlus - Guide to healthy web surfing
National Council Against Health Fraud
Quackwatch
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