Amin Azzam

Do you trust Wikipedia with your health? Med students aim to make it better

October 3, 2013Health & Medicine

When you get sick, do you look to Wikipedia to help you figure out what ails you? A California medical professor thinks if you’re going to do that — and many do — he might as well improve the quality of those articles. And he’s getting med students to help him.

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