James Heilman isn't an easy man to get a hold of; he kept offering us odd, off-hour windows of availability to do a phone interview. When we finally connected, he explained: He works the night shift ...

According to a recent report from the Pew Research Center, one in three Americans have, at some point, taken to the Internet to try to diagnose a medical condition (for themselves or others), and 72 ...

Wikipedia is a go-to source of information for both patients and physicians, according to an IMS Institute for Healthcare Informatics report. The report found half of physicians have searched ...

Although many still browse Wikipedia with a skepticism stemming from the fact that anyone can edit its content, people routinely rely on the free online encyclopedia for information. Wikipedia was the ...

Welcome to Source Notes, a Future Tense column about the internet’s information ecosystem. Wikipedia has 323 language editions, and at times, there are huge differences between them. For instance, ...

Fifty percent of physicians look up conditions on the site, and some are editing articles themselves to improve the quality of available information. In spite of all of our teachers' and bosses' ...