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The Top 3 Health and Medical Sites

StethoscopeIf you think that you’re coming down with some irritating, difficult to describe malaise, there will seemingly be no shortage of family members, friends or acquaintances willing to give you their opinion and to suggest a snap remedy for you. While they are well-meaning, you don’t think that they’re particularly qualified, but then neither are you when it comes to diagnosing your condition. When you also consider the cost of healthcare and doctor visits these days, it is no wonder that we are turning to online health-related information portals and search engines to help us get a handle on what ails us. For the sniffling entrepreneur, here are our top three picks for health and medical sites:

1. Web MD

This is the most highly trafficked site of its kind on the Internet by far and with good reason. It is a well-organized, authoritative, documented and comprehensive site and certainly the best, in our opinion. This was one of the first sites to realize the thirst for health-related information on the Internet and it does a good job of linking together professionals, medical insurers, patients and support organizations. As this industry is so dynamic, Web MD seeks to keep its finger on the pulse for you by providing the latest news and news alerts as they happen, giving you a breakdown of what it actually means. Web MD makes you feel better already!

2. Daily Strength

Let’s face it, if you are unfortunate enough to be diagnosed with something fairly serious you need all the help that you can get, both in terms of medical care and strong emotional support. Daily Strength gives you the opportunity to interact with people who are facing the very same problem that you are. Through hundreds of support groups covering a variety of different illnesses, you never need to feel as if you are alone, even if you don’t have too many close family members or friends around you. Help, support and encouragement is freely available and there are discussion and advice boards to help you get the answers to those many questions. Whilst the site may not offer the answer to as many technical questions as others, such as Web MD, it does offer you support from the sharp end.

3. Right Health

This is a comprehensive site, rich in features and is very user friendly. It has quite a powerful search engine which is well optimized and engineered and they have clearly put a lot of effort into integrating resources and providing levels of education covering the spectrum of illness and disease. Some of the information is indeed comprehensive and you may have to register with certain third party providers to access full documentation, but you are able to pick up valuable education in layman’s terms, without getting lost in a sea of technical jargon. User-friendly and comprehensive.

So what do you think about our top three picks? Do you have any favorite sites of your own? Get in touch with us and let us know what your thoughts.

Adam Toren

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