Correction: The original version of this article misstated the symptom checker's original launch date. WebMD, long the go-to for patients turning to the internet for an answer to mysterious symptoms, ...

We’ve all done it: You plug your aches and pains into WebMD’s Symptom Checker, see that it could be either “cancer” or “seasonal allergies,” and promptly close out the window and decide to ignore ...

As a fourth-year ophthalmology resident at Emory University School of Medicine, Riley Lyons’ biggest responsibilities include triage: When a patient comes in with an eye-related complaint, Lyons must ...

People looking to a popular online symptom checker for answers about eye problems often get a wrong diagnosis, a small study suggests. Symptom checkers are all over the web, often using algorithms to ...

So many of us play doctor with Google. A strange twinge here, a dull ache there—we type it in, skim through multiple health websites, shrug, and carry on. But what if your body isn’t just throwing out ...

Fitbit Labs announced the upcoming beginning of the Medical Record Navigator test, which leverages Gemini for lab report summaries. The Symptom Checker test will let users describe what's wrong and ...