Doctors are now using Google's services

Jan 16, 2007 14:08 GMT  ·  By

Google owns so many services from several categories, but no health section is currently available. Probably, this can be a good suggestion for Google to develop a health search engine that can allow users to find health information, medicines or diseases details. At this time, there are several solutions available that are offering these features, but imagine that Google's search technology can make one of the most powerful health portals on the internet. Generally, it's better to go and see a doctor than to check the internet for information because it can prescribe you more specific medicines, so I guess this is the main reason for Google to avoid this kind of service.

Even if the company doesn't own a health service, it seems like other products are helping the search giant in health-related situations. Google Scholar, a solution provided by Google that enables you to search for scholarly literature, is the first in Google internet service that helps doctors cure a disease. It seems like the case took place in Dominican Hospital where six persons urgently needed a treatment after they were poisoned with mushrooms.

"Todd Mitchell had to find an antidote for mushroom poisoning when six people showed up in Dominican Hospital's emergency room complaining of symptoms of the ailment. The problem is that such an antidote does not exist in the United States.

Into the night that Tuesday and early Wednesday morning, Mitchell looked for information. Using Google Scholar, a search engine of scholarly literature, he found a promising avenue of treatment: Extract from milk thistle, a nuisance weed for farmers and used as a liver tonic in European folk medicine. Milk thistle extract, or silymarin, has been used in Europe to treat cirrhosis of the liver, scarring that often proves fatal," Web Pro News reported.