Dr. James Heilman isn't an easy man to get hold of — he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night ...

The health agency will license much of its material to the online encyclopedia, allowing the information to be reposted widely into almost 200 languages. By Donald G. McNeil Jr. As part of efforts to ...

Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, according to a letter published today in Lancet Global Health, because it’s the first port of call for people ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Consumers who rely on the user-edited Web resource Wikipedia for information on medications are putting themselves at risk of potentially harmful drug interactions and ...

A new study has found that Wikipedia entries on the costliest medical conditions contradicted the latest medical research 90% of the time. A team of U.S. scientists said they found “many errors” in ...

Cancer information on the website Wikipedia was equally accurate but less easy to read than the material on a website from the U.S. National Cancer Institute, a new study suggests. Wikipedia is often ...

Wikipedia is the most highly rated resource among online and print materials on depression and schizophrenia, a study has revealed. Experts rated content according to accuracy, currency, breadth of ...

Fifty percent of physicians look up conditions on the site, and some are editing articles themselves to improve the quality of available information. In spite of all of our teachers' and bosses' ...

Thomas Shafee is an active Wikipedian and is on the WikiJournal of Medicine editorial board. Health professionals have a duty to improve the accuracy of medical entries in Wikipedia, according to a ...