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--- Knight Ridder Newspapers

[published in this week's (third week of May, 2001) Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA)]

"A recent Rand study appraised Internet-health sites based on their information about four health problems: breast cancer, childhood asthma, depression and obesity.

The two sites that were clearly best were Oncolink.com for breast cancer and a depression site at www.nimh.nih.gov. English-language sites were markedly superior to Spanish-language sites, without exception.

Among the strongest were Engish_language sites for:

Some leading Spanish-language sites were:


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