Does the internet harm health?
- 26 January 2002
- Vol. 324 (7331) , 238a-238
- https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.324.7331.238a
Abstract
# Some evidence exists that the internet does harm health {#article-title-2} EDITOR—I would take issue with the statement that there is almost no evidence to support the claim that the internet harms health.1 A search of Medline, for example, identifies a report in the Annals of Internal Medicine (http://www.annals.org/issues/v133n11/nts/200012050-00006.html) that describes the case of a patient who died of kidney and liver failure after using hydrazine sulphate (as recommended by the Kathy Keeton website, http://www.kathykeeton-cancer.com/) as an alternative treatment for cancer.2 On another occasion a nurse in the United States was charged with manslaughter after giving MICON—a non-toxic treatment given over 24 hours (http://www.edensinstitute.com/)—to a patient with cancer (see www.ncahf.org/digest/01-18.html). In addition to these …Keywords
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