Doctor Dot Com: Online Symptom Searches Bad for Your Health?

4 December 2008, 2:00 am

Filed under: Health, Tech, Study Buddy It all starts with a tickle in your throat. It's probably nothing, but you plug your symptoms into Google anyway, and you're rewarded with a "House" episode's worth of scary-sounding diseases. Got a muscle twitch? It's a stroke. No, wait,... Read more Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments... Read More »

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