Health on the Web: If You're Not Confused, You Should Be; Health Advocates Book Puts Internet Research Skills Into Consumers Hands

3/16/2004

From: Gary Paul Bryant of Wisdomatics, 877-783-0590 or Gary.Bryant@wisdomatics.com, or Web: http://www.SearchingTheWebForHealth.com or http://www.BreakThroughDigest.com

KENMORE, Wash., March 16 -- Type the word cancer into your Google search engine and you'll be greeting with more than 27 million results. Yet hundreds of thousands of people do just that every month. According to Gary Paul Bryant, executive producer of BreakThrough Digest and author of the newly released book, Searching the Web for Health, A Guide to Finding Reliable Medical Information on the Internet, much of the health information consumers find on the Web is out-dated, quoted out of context, and sometimes, just plain wrong.

"The Web is a tremendous tool for uncovering medical information," says Bryant, "but we sometimes make the search harder than it needs to be."

Bryant, whose medical interest started with his own experience with a congenital birth defect, has spent the last five years developing Wisdomatics, a company that continues to develop ways of bringing reliable information to the people who need it most. His flagship medical information web site, BreakthroughDigest.com receives hundreds of thousands of visitors each month.

"Consumers have a right to know what's going on in the world of medical research. We have a responsibility to our own well-being, and that means educating ourselves so that we become partners in our own health decisions," says Bryant. Searching the Web for Health provides some of the tools that we need to make this happen.

The book is an excellent resource for computer users, from novice to expert. Teachers, librarians and medical professionals may find the book to be a useful tool for students, patrons and patients, to safely navigate the Web in their search for accurate medical information. In addition, the books' extensive appendix provides listings of hospitals, universities and biotechnology companies that are actively involved in medical research.

Published by iUniverse, Searching the Web for Health, A Guide to Finding Reliable Medical Information on the Internet (ISBN 0- 595-30343-9, 90 pages, $11.95) is currently available online from its own Web site at SearchingTheWebForHealth.com, iUniverse.com and Amazon.com. Searching the Web for Health can be ordered from most book stores in North America.