Word: medpedia
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Though the main part of Medpedia is designed to provide objective information, the site will also feature separate pages for debate and commentary among the medical community...
...Komaroff and Clever both said that the interactive features of Medpedia would provide a unique medium for patients to connect online, share their experiences, and offer advice...
...Linda Hawes Clever, a clinical professor at the University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine and a member of Medpedia's Board of Advisers, called the conflict-of-interest policies an "imperative in progress...
...Although there will be Medpedia pages covering certain treatments and drugs, Currier noted that editors will be prohibited from prescribing treatment...
...Currier said that the Medpedia Project will not take any funds from the biomedical industry in order to prevent conflicts of interest that could arise if it were to take funds from pharmaceutical companies, for example...