Check out the 10 hottest spots on the Internet

The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) in Geneva, Switzerland, surveyed 3,276 randomly selected Internet users who regularly access health information on-line. Here are the respondents’ 10 favorite health care Web sites, listed in order of popularity, starting with the most frequently visited site (for other findings of the fifth annual HON survey on Internet use for health purposes, see p. 80):

1. National Library of Medicine, MEDLINE, Pubmed, National Institutes of Health: www.nlm.nih.gov

2. Medscape: www.medscape.com

3. WebMD: www.Webmd.com

4. DrKoop: www.drkoop.com

5. Med411.com: www.med411.com

6. British Medical Journal: www.bmj.com/http://www.bmj.gov

7. Intelihealth: www.intelihealth.com

8. Mayo Health System: www.mayohealth.org

9. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: www.cdc.gov

10. HON: www.hon.ch