The online encyclopedia is an antidote to an increasingly poisoned information ecosystem. Researchers should help to nourish ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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' ...