Mubariz Maqsood is a professor at McMaster University and a medical student at the University of Alberta, with interests in medicine, education and public communication.
For years, we talked about health misinformation as if it were mainly a knowledge problem: patients encountering false claims online, doctors correcting them and the better information winning.
In Alberta, a recent change to MyHealth Records expanded parent and guardian access to children’s online health information, which could put some youth at risk.