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Yahoo Health

Pros: The Yahoo health site is a useful place to get all the latest news on health-related issues.

 

Cons: While you are navigating within the various areas of the site, the tabs for the different categories that are listed on the homepage disappear, so you have to go back to the homepage to see them or use a drop-down menu tab. It would be better if the tabs were consistently across the top of the page.

 

The Bottomline: Visitors can find a good selection of health information on the Yahoo health site, though it is far from comprehensive. Also, its organization isn't the best - users have to scroll through a lot of pages or menus to find what information. The site could do with an overhaul to make it more informative, less confusing, and easier to navigate.

 

Best of Web Rating: (3 out of 5)

 

Reviewed on: August 31, 2009

 

The Yahoo Health site contains a section for advice from health experts, an everyday wellness section that has many useful categories, a section on mind and mood, longevity, drugs, diet and fitness, and an A-Z health section where you can look up all kinds of health issues, diseases, treatments, as well as first aid and safety information. There is a helpful section on common health topics as well. This site has numerous videos on all kinds of conditions and diseases, health and wellness, diet and fitness, mind and mood, and longevity, which are all quite helpful and informative.

 

Within each category, information is reasonably well organized and easy to find. This site also provides related topics and helpful links to other areas of the web where you can find additional information on a particular category. However, the information that is there is sometimes fairly limited. Also, when you click in a specific area you will sometimes get unrelated information mixed in, and there are sponsored links and ads all over the place. There is a filter feature, which is present on some pages but not on others, and the information presented there will not always be specific to the current page visited.

 

 

The Yahoo Health website is somewhat user-friendly, and easy to navigate. However, each specific area doesn't seem to offer comprehensive information at a glance. To find what you are looking for requires continual navigation, and drilling down deeper and deeper. It is also difficult to get a full array of information in specific categories, some of the definitions and features are more limited than in other health-related websites. You would not be able to rely on this site as a go-to destination for whatever health-related issue you are looking for. It might be a useful place to go for initial information, and to get recent news stories related to the health field.

 

The Yahoo Health site contains helpful links to Yahoo Groups, where you can go and participate in group discussions on a variety of topics. You can also rate some of the various features, such as articles and interactive features.