Deborah Cohen: How the Internet Hijacked our Health

Want to track your blood sugar? Your heart rate? Your sleep? You can. Everything is a click away but who is regulating this? Medical journalist, former Science Editor for ITV News and Health Correspondent for BBC Newsnight, Dr Deborah Cohen examines the new landscape of healthcare online. From mental wellbeing influencers promoting untested therapies, to entrepreneurs promoting alternative remedies, the advice seems to make sense. These self-styled experts don’t know us or our medical history, they don’t owe us a duty of care, and they are rarely either qualified or impartial. So why do we trust them?

Book: Bad Influence: How the Internet Hijacked our Health, One World