What is considered credible information?

So what is a good source of information about medicine?  In medicine the definitive answers come from Randomized Control Trials. These are experiments in which the treatment is compared to a previous treatment or a placebo group. This helps us figure out if it really works better than what we already have or if it works at all. Often when you read news papers they try to summarize experiments and make them exciting to read. More often then not however they mess something up. They report things incorrectly or oversimplify the results. I mean think about it, these are people you spent their careers in journalism, they may not have the expertise to properly explain the results. This means the in the end you have to read the original research. I know that most will not do that so I would like to suggest a few good sources of info.

Health Canada's Website

http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/index-eng.php

Journal of the American Medical Association (they often publish articles that are easy to read and summarize the results of previous experiments)

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/journal.aspx

Try using Google Scholar, sometimes reading the abstracts of experiments isn't so bad

http://scholar.google.ca/

Review Articles, this is where a scientist takes all the information previously collected and summorizes what we know. They are much easier to read than the original research.

Wikipedia, I have found that on many issues Wiki provides a very good source of info. Although you need to remember that it can very easily be wrong so take what it says causally.

Now this is not a full list but only some suggestions. Just remember to always consider how reliable your information is. If you want to be an expert on a medical issue you need to read the original research. 

Wes