Fast Facts:
+ Like other Smart Answers, the content is clearly visible at the top of a result page,
+ Many Health-Related smart answers provide content from multiple established and respected sources of health information including HealthLine. Healthline has also licensed content from Gale including the Gale Encyclopedia of Medicine and the Gale Encyclopedia of Neurological Disorders.
A quick review at some types of Health Smart Answers:
+ Prescription Drugs: Prozac
and Prozac Dosage. Again, the snippet text is different. Also, note how the brand name is converted automatically to the generic name. Another example, this time for an over-the-counter medicine: Advil.
+ Their are also Health Smart Answer section labeled First Aid. Try, Snake Bite or Fainting.
Btw, a search for First Aid by itself will provide the searcher with a drop down menu of all First Aid Smart Answers.
Many Smart Answers also include other Ask.com features like Zoom Related Information and images.
Of course, the more choices the better when it comes to health information and the many tools at MedlinePlus are another "must have" for your medical research kit. Recently, we've also posted a couple of items about a new venture from Steve Case named Revolution Health.
A family of resources to help information workers be more effective, raise the value of information in their organisations and contribute to success. Read more »
Recently I have found myself cooing over visualisation maps (and heat maps) of health and well being resources. The content rich data is overlayed with mapping technologies, and some interesting themes and patterns are emerging.
A lot of the talk around social media in the last year has been around information overload. Social media has provided us with new and exciting ways to create content. But it has also meant learning new ways to manage and engage with social media tools. Are we teetering on the edge of an information overload precipice?
Information overload is a figment of your imagination. Or a failure of your filter. Or a symptom of your technological submissiveness. Depends on who you ask.
What if you had to sort through 3.5 million articles and social media posts a day and try to pull out the most relevant items for your organisation? What if you then had to cobble it all together into something readable for your top groups and executives in your organisation?
Alacra Compliance saves time by aggregating information from both free and fee-based sources and enabling users to conduct an accurate federated search across these sources (coined “simultaneous search” by Alacra).
FreePint Family
Quilting big data threads
The fallacy of information overload
Information overload: fact, fantasy or filter failure? 
