NetDoctor.co.uk

Last week I was hopefully searching for a UK health news resource to rival that of Web MD and although I'm not quite there yet, I'm certainly getting closer.

This week's website is the UK independent health website NetDoctor.co.uk and refers to yesterday's article with the headline:

BMI may predict risk of aggressive breast cancer.

The article concerns research conducted by a team at the University of Texas who claim that body mass index (BMI) may prove useful in determining the prognosis of women with breast cancer.

Although NetDoctor is a fairly limited resource, in the majority of cases merely providing basic articles, it does have several useful features.  The site has a comprehensive and detailed encyclopaedia aswell as an advice section and discussion boards.  By far one of the most useful features however is the provision of links within the article body to encyclopaedia entries explaining key terms (see cancer link below).

NetDoctor fails however to provide many of the features common to those sites reviewed in earlier posts as a result of which the site will probably be considered by many as resource of last resort.