Many web sites are available to learn about health, prevent disease, and obtain information about specific diseases. However, not all web sites contain reputable, accurate information. To assist you in your health search, a fine selection of health web sites was compiled for you on HealthLinks.

Great effort was taken to review the web sites made available to you on HealthLinks. Issues considered during review include quality, accuracy, currency, clarity, completeness and objectivity of information. Ease of navigation as well as availability of reputable links and additional resources were also evaluated. Based on our review, at the time of publication, in our opinion these sites were evaluated overall to be quality sites for health information.

However, wired.MD cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any sites available on HealthLinks. wired.MD cannot control any aspect of the web sites mentioned and information on these sites is subject to change without notice. wired.MD believes that information gathered from the Internet is not a substitute for advice from trained health care professionals. wired.MD and Cottage Health System are not responsible for any consequences arising from the use of information contained within the web sites nor in any of the external links contained in web sites listed on HealthLinks. Mention of products, goods or services listed in these sites does not constitute an endorsement by wired.MD.

Because information on the Internet is always changing and growing, we encourage you to evaluate these and any other web sites you use. To learn more about principles for evaluating medical and health web sites, refer to Health on the Net Foundation (http://www.hon.ch/HONcode). They have developed a Code of Conduct which includes ethical guidelines for web sites to follow to help improve consistency and quality of medical and health information posted on the Internet and World Wide Web.

Thank you for using HealthLinks, and please make every effort to be a well-informed health consumer!

Kathryn Smart MS, RN, CRRN

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