The Wall Street Journal writes that in 2008, health Web sites drew about 72 million unique visitors, up 14% from a year earlier, according to comScore Inc., an online-marketing research firm that tracks some 200 such sites. Such strong growth comes as sites increasingly focus on some of today’s leading consumer health concerns, including prescription-drug safety, quality of care, and the ability to network with other patients facing similar health problems.
In this news item, the WSJ lists several free new health sites, or ones that have been recently expanded, including Consumermedsafety.org, WhyNotTheBest.org and HazMap (hazmap.nlm.nih.gov)