Online health services "need tighter rules"
Posted in: Internet Use/New Technologies at 12/10/2010 18:52
Online health information and disease-risk tests can mislead, confuse and create needless anxiety, and governments should do more ensure the people who use them know what they are buying, experts said on Tuesday.
A report by a British medical ethics group said private DNA tests may be "medically or therapeutically meaningless" and could give false results or information that is "unclear, unreliable or inaccurate".
http://in.reuters.com/article/idINIndia-52125120101012
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