When you feel a pain in your side or scratch in your throat, your first reaction may be to go online and use a symptom checker to diagnose yourself. But how good is the information and advice these ...

A study at Harvard compared doctors with 23 online checkers - and found human doctors are 'vastly superior' Doctors correctly diagnose illnesses twice as often as online symptom checkers, new evidence ...

Software and online services checking for symptoms of illnesses are meant to uncover a possible disease or infection a person is suffering from. However, a recent report suggests that people should ...