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About OncoLink
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- OncoLink in the News: "Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish" - OncoLink is featured in an article in the May 23, 2001 version of the Journal of the American Medical Association, in the article, "Health Information on the Internet: Accessibility, Quality, and Readability in English and Spanish". The research for this report was funded by the California HealthCare Foundation to RAND, and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars Program.
- Philadelphia Inquirer: Cancer patients don't tell all, Penn study says - In this Philadelphia Inquirer interview James Metz, MD, editor of OncoLink's Complementary Treatments menu, states that cancer patients often keep quiet about alternative therapies, putting their doctors' treatments at risk.
- OncoLink
Reprint: "Great Vets" - Philadelphia Magazine
rated Lili Duda, VMD, editor of OncoLink's Veterinary Oncology
menu, one of the best veterinarians in Philadelphia. Read on!
- OncoLink is a "Forbes Favorite" - OncoLink was named the "Forbes Favorite" Website in the Health category in Forbes magazine's "Best of the Web" print and online editions.
- LATIMES.COM:
"Your Health Online" A Portal to Cancer Research- OncoLink is favorably reviewed in Marla Bolotsky's column
which features the latest news on health-oriented websites .
- USNews
Online: News You Can Use--OnLine Cancer Resources- U.S. News has included OncoLink in a comprehensive list of
cancer related links for your convenience. Find answers to your
questions about cancer by searching these related links.
- TIME Magazine: A Web of Deceit (advice from TIME health columnist Christine
Gorman) - This article addresses common
misconceptions about health-related matters that often proliferate on
the Internet. The article also addresses means for readers to help
discern the truth in what they read online. OncoLink is cited as a
particularly useful source of oncology information.
- "OncoLink: An Overview" - This article, written as a description of OncoLink by coeditor-in-Chief Goldwein, describes facets of the OncoLink project from April 1996. An even more comprehensive overview may be obtained from the SCAMC presentation OncoLink: a multimedia oncology information resource on the Internet. Proc Annu Symp Comput Appl Med Care 1994;:103-7
- OncoLink Wins GII Award -
OncoLink was named the winner in the Health category of the
prestigious Global Information Infrastructure Awards.
- Boot
Camp Feature from WCBS News Radio: The GII Awards for Web Sites-
OncoLink is mentioned in this weekly radio program which
features the latest news on computers and technology.
- Businessweek.com:
Technology and You- OncoLink was mentioned
favorably last week in BussinessWeek (5/18/98) in a roundup of the
1997 GII Winners.
- "Clinical Trials
Newsletter" article about OncoLink (Fall 1994)
- ComdexRadio: Interview with Ivor Benjamin - Former co-editor in chief is interviewed at Comdex about OncoLink and winning the GII Award. Download RealPlayer to listen.
- Inter@ctive Week -
George Vernadakis, Editor at "Inter@ctive Week," mentioned
OncoLink in his column of May 4, 1998,
"And the Award Goes To..."
- JAMA: Rating Health Information on the Internet: Navigating to
Knowledge or to Babel? (JAMA. 1998;279:611-614) - OncoLink's Editor's Choice program was one of 14 choosen for evaluation by the authors.
- JNCI: At
Last, Doctors Begin to Jump Online (JNCI 88:22 p1610-11, 1996) -
a news article in The Journal of the National Cancer
Institute describing the increasing use of the Internet by
physicians.
- McGraw-Hill: Dr. Tom Linden's Guide to Online Medicine - Named OncoLink as the "premier" site on the Internet for cancer information.
- New England
Journal of Medecine: The Internet and the Journal (10/19/95) - The OncoLink Editors advocate using the Internet as a venue for the
exchange of medical information. Reply written in response to an
editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine.
- "Valuable Life" Magazine - OncoLink was featured in Japan's "Valuable Life" magazine on January 15, 1998.
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