This story was originally published by The Markup, now a part of CalMatters.Sign up for their newsletter.State-run health care websites around the country, meant to provide a simple way to shop for ...

Doctors for America, a non-profit medical advocacy organization in the US, has sued the Office of Personnel Management (OPM), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), Food and Drug ...

Reliable health information online uses high quality, recent, peer-reviewed research. People should look for balanced information and site transparency and avoid websites that use sensationalism or ...

Changes to federal health websites have raised concerns about their reliability. These independent sources offer an alternative. By Teddy Rosenbluth Soon after President Donald J. Trump took office ...

Scientists and public health leaders are taking stock of the Trump administration's abrupt decision to pull down web pages, datasets and selected information from federal health websites. Some of the ...

To evaluate whether health information you’ve found online is reliable, you can consider its sources, evaluate it for bias, and check it against what trustworthy sources are saying on the topic.

While the vast majority of people over 50 look for health information on the internet, a new poll shows 74% would have very little or no trust in such information if it were generated by artificial ...

Parts of the website for the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been altered and pages have been removed. Some data is back but scientists remain concerned about what's still ...