What men do online

Regular readers of the MHF's website will know that we were shortlisted as charity of the year in the Medical Journalists' Association's awards.

MHF with other charities and Dr Pixie McKenna, from the

TV programme Embarassing Bodies, at the MJA Awards

Sadly we did not win; the honour went to Sense About Science. I was able to have a good chat with them about our plans for National Men's Health Week 2011. This will focus on using technology to improve men's health and will include issues like understanding what's reliable information online.

We are still thrashing this out, to be honest, and had a meeting about it this week. The Forum's award winning health info website, malehealth, is incredibly popular and the government's plans for health state they want to make more use of technology. However, there are unanswered questions about what the government really means by this and also about how you can really encourage better use of health on the internet without increasing the numbers of people panicked by an internet diagnosis?

None of that however in the exciting new online health service for men launching next week. It's backed by the MHF along with others including Diabetes UK, Relate and the National Obesity Forum. Find out more on the Forum's own site on Monday!