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MEDLINEplus from the US National Library of Medicine now has a Health
Topic on Menstruation and Premenstrual Syndrome at:
http://medlineplus.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/menstruationandpremenstrualsy...
Their selection guidelines provides a selected list of quality
sources:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/criteria.html
More links at Primary Care Clinical Practice Guidelines - PMS:
http://medicine.ucsf.edu/resources/guidelines/guide10.html#pms
Competing interests: No competing interests
I entered "premenstrual syndrome treatment" at www.google.com. The
first hit was a self-serving piece from the University of Pennsylvania. I
ignored the second and third because they were commercial. (A rough but
useful strategy for the layperson.) The fourth hit took me to a piece from
the Group Health Cooperative of Puget Sound which is exemplary in both
format and content: http://www.ghc.org/health_info/self/women/pms.html
I believe that an astute patient can do better asking healthcare
questions of google.com than of most healthcare information sites
(excepting truly excellent ones such as CDC Travel Information or Go Ask
Alice!).
Google is certainly easier to use. (I couldn't figure how to find the
PMS piece from Group Health Cooperative's home page.)
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trustworthy sites
The Health on the Net Foundation makes an effort to separate the
wheat from the chaff
www.hon.ch/HONcode/Conduct.html
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