Wikipedia is a go-to source of information for both patients and physicians, according to an IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics report. The report found half of physicians have searched ...

James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift ...

From the left: Brook Molnar, student and faculty members Inga Doroz, Michelle Craig, Marcia Harvey work on Wikipedia entries. Cuesta College recently hosted a Wikipedia Edit-a-Thon, an effort to ...

According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, one in three Americans have, at some point, taken to the Internet to try to diagnose a medical condition (for themselves or others), and 72 ...

It was just a decade ago when people talked about the website Wikipedia as, let's be blunt, a place for lies and nonsense. As Dunder Mifflin's Michael Scott noted in "The Office," "Wikipedia is the ...

Although many still browse Wikipedia with a skepticism stemming from the fact that anyone can edit its content, people routinely rely on the free online encyclopedia for information. Wikipedia was the ...

Fifty percent of physicians look up conditions on the site, and some are editing articles themselves to improve the quality of available information. In spite of all of our teachers' and bosses' ...

Researchers analyzed the Wikipedia entries for 10 of the most costly medical conditions in the U.S. in terms of both public and private expenditures as identified by the Agency for Healthcare Research ...