.health the TLD for quality health information

Al writes \”

Not really a scoop as its ongoing but a nice article on the bbc site about the discussions around the .health TLD:

news.bbc.co.uk/


and the coverage on Slashdot


slashdot.org


As always the odd insightful comment worth reading \”

This raises some interesting questions on quality control of web sites, especially medical web sites. Should a government be given control over certain sites to ensure they are reliable? Should anyone really be getting medical advice from a web site to begin with?