If I need information I look for the publications linked from the NIH website.
I think the problems with health information are that the vast majority of the population isn’t sophisticated enough to understand the physiological and biochemical specifics, and that generic info is pretty much worthless.
People should listen to their doctors (who specifically advise against running to google for every symptom)
If by "listen" you mean by "blindly listen" (by the context of your comment it seems you mean blindly listen), this is absolutely horrible advice, and I wish people would stop repeating it. Even for most slightly non-trivial problems, physicians are often wrong in either diagnosis or treatment plans. In fact I've found physicians be some of the worst debuggers/problem solvers that I've ever encountered.
Doctors can be wrong (they have been for me multiple times) and I feel a certain sense of responsibility for learning about and understanding what is going on in my body. Now, if I had a panel of doctors at the ready to answer my questions and explain things to me in the detail I want, that would be great. But that seems unrealistic. So we do need something to bridge the gap between the fallible doctor we very occasionally get to talk to and our otherwise deep ignorance of our own health and bodies.
I think the problems with health information are that the vast majority of the population isn’t sophisticated enough to understand the physiological and biochemical specifics, and that generic info is pretty much worthless.
People should listen to their doctors (who specifically advise against running to google for every symptom)