Medical Diagnosis

Almost 60% of difficult medical diagnoses can be solved using the Internet to check symptoms, according to researchers at Princess Alexandra Hospital in Brisbane, Australia. Doctors know a lot, but it's almost impossible to keep up with the huge amount of new medical data that continually becomes available.

One doctor shocked her colleagues by coming up with the correct medical diagnosis on a rare syndrome by entering symptoms into Google.

Researchers stress caution, however, stressing that the quality of the information available on medical Web sites is crucial to successful research and medical diagnosis. Read the entire article.