Information Competency and Your Health

Information Competency will inevitably help your academic career, but it may also save your life---or the life of someone you love. This article on CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2008/HEALTH/02/21/ep.web.sites/index.html describes how a Web savvy mother found an innovative treatment for her son’s case of Cat Scratch Fever by searching .gov and .org Web sites. The article also provides some helpful hints about researching accurate medical information on the Web.