The HealthBoards: Website Review
In search of finding and reviewing good online health resources, I’ve come across “The HealthBoards“, which is a health community. It’s quite bigger one with a lot of sub categories on almost all health issues. The categorization is best for all type of users, i.e. best for novice internet users.
The About section of the site claims that it’s the largest and most dynamic health community on web. Their claim doesn’t sound fake you have a look at 400,000 plus registered members, and over 3 million messages posted.
It’s a very comprehensive Health Guide with valuable health information and tools for managing health according to the about section, and the claim again sounds authentic when you have a look at number of people online all time and the content site contains.
Further, the site also holds the credit of being one of the top 20 health information websites in 2005 by Consumer Reports Health WebWatch.
Wierd useful!
Health Boards is NOT a community, sharing website. I replied to a question about finding a Low Dose Allergy Doctor (there are only about 40 docs in the U.S. that do this – these are NOT the same as what most of us know as ‘allergy shots’. I gave a website to Dr. Shrader who pioneered it in the U.S. because he has not only info about it, but also has a list of every doc in the US that does this because he trained them personally on the proper protocol. I included another couple websites for this person who was desperately seeking information. I was ‘warned’ not to give websites, but I’d already replied to a second desperate individual who could only find one M.D. in Ohio to do LDA therapy which was very far away from them, I included the websites on the post to the previous person. The moderator told me about posting websites & deleted all from my posts so my posts became worthless to the person asking the question. I made a reply online after one of my posts that ‘we can’t share relavant, useful information to people honestly begging for help but we are free to give someone a smiley face or a non-existent hug. How ridiculous!’ Well, after the truth was told my account was permanently suspended because I did not ‘follow the rules’. More like I didn’t keep my mouth shut at complete and utter nonsense.