Google adds proven medical information to issue

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Google has modified its Knowledge Graph technology to provide users with reliable medical information. The update, on which the team of professional doctors led by Kapil Parakh worked, should appear in the search engine by the end of this week. Medical facts were selected only from trusted sources by an automated system and were checked by experts at the Mayo Clinic , one of the largest private medical centers in the world.



A study by the University of Science and Technology in Hong Kong suggests that people tend to assess their own symptoms more pessimistly than those they heard from friends or read on the Web. The problem is exacerbated during mass illnesses and the media hysteria accompanying this — media such as swine flu or Ebola. All this makes a person do without the advice of doctors, take unnecessary medications, or conversely delay with a visit to the hospital. This mental disorder is called cyber chondria .

What for medvuz if there is Wi-Fi?

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Project manager Prem Ramaswami (Prem Ramaswami) stresses that you can only use Google to get information about a disease to find out if it is dangerous, infectious, or age-related. In no case should not perceive the search results as a set of recommendations for self-treatment, and it is better to use it for a more meaningful conversation with your doctor.



Here is the new issue for the query “What is tonsillitis”: