BestTreatments - reliable evidence-based health information for consumers
www.moh.govt.nz/besttreatments

Visit the BestTreatments website

Are you interested in knowing more about a medical condition? Would you like to find out the latest drugs and treatments available?

New Zealand consumers wanting to be fully informed about their health issues can now access the same source of evidence-based information as doctors.

Everyone browsing the web from within New Zealand can gain free access to the www.besttreatments.net site which contains easy-to-understand information about 180 conditions - everything from acid reflux, glue ear and high blood pressure, through to multiple sclerosis, ovarian cancer and stroke.

The site is run by the British Medical Journal, using information from widely accepted worldwide research and approved by doctors who are specialists in the field.

It describes:

• treatments that work

• treatments that are likely to work

• harms and benefits

• treatments that are unlikely to work or may be harmful

• information on tests and operations.

Background Information

Trial under way of free online health information (media release 28 July 2004)

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Page last updated: 24 October 2007