The Healthwise Knowledgebase is your best resource when making decisions about your health and health care. Use the content of the Healthwise Knowledgebase to research health questions important to you and your family. Every topic is based on the most reliable, most up-to-date medical research.

Today, more than ever before, information is care, and Healthwise information helps you think less like a patient and more like a partner with your doctor. Within the course of every illness or health problem, people are called upon to make decisions. Little decisions about whether to call a doctor and what self-care is best, and big decisions about medications, tests, and surgeries.

It contains evidence-based topics on health conditions, medical tests and procedures, medications, and everyday health and wellness issues based on the most reliable, up-to-date medical research. An expert team of physicians, nurses, medical writers, and researchers seeks out the best evidence from medical science and then puts it together for you in a consumer-friendly format. Healthwise works directly with leading medical specialists to fine-tune the accuracy and currency of each topic.