BACKGROUND The unavailability of Internet pharmacy websites may impact a consumer's drug purchases and health care. OBJECTIVE To address the issue of attrition, a defined set of Canadian Internet pharmacy websites was examined at three separate time intervals. METHODS In February to March 2006, 117 distinct, fully functional "Canadian Internet pharmacy" websites were located using the advan...

Adults routinely use the Internet as a source of health information. Patients with bipolar disorder and caregivers should be encouraged to increase their knowledge of this complex illness, including through the Internet. However, patients, caregivers, and physicians should be aware of potential perils when searching the Internet for health information, including loss of privacy, quality of web ...

Neurosurgical and neuropathological resources on the internet are rapidly developing. Some excellent clinical, patient information, professional, academic, and teaching web sites are available. This review summarises the most useful online sites for neurosurgeons and neuropathologists in the United Kingdom and beyond. More general internet resources have been covered in the first article in thi...

The increasing complexity of navigating the Internet is becoming one of the fundamental obstacles to its eeective use. This is due to the nature of the Internet, principally, a disorganized collection of both sites and site documents whose exponential growth rate rapidly is outstripping any user's ability to master it. There are two ways to deal with this complexity: reorganize the structure of...

The Internet is increasingly being viewed as a health promotion tool with enormous potential. However, this potential cannot be realized if Web sites do not utilize the features that make the Internet a "hybrid" mass and interpersonal communication medium. The purpose of this study was to examine interactive safer sex Web sites on a number of dimensions. A comprehensive search that included Int...