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.

Using ChatGPT for health information may be quick, low cost, and provide a sense of privacy. However, it doesn’t always provide reliable, up-to-date, or consistent data. ChatGPT is an artificial ...

Credit: Getty Images. Although convenient access to health information online has the potential to improve outcomes as the result of patients being more informed, ensuring the accuracy of that ...

This Pew Research Center report looks at Americans’ views on health information and how they view their own health. Pew Research Center does research to help the public, media and decision-makers ...

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 ...