About healthfinder.

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Welcome to healthfinder.gov, a government Web site where you will find information and tools to help you and those you care about stay healthy.

Our Content
When making decisions about your health, its important to know where to go to get the latest, most reliable information. healthfinder.gov has resources on a wide range of health topics selected from over 1,600 government and non-profit organizations to bring you the best, most reliable health information on the Internet. We invite you to review our quality guidelines to learn more about how resources on healthfinder.gov are reviewed and selected.

Social Media
Live well. Learn how. Pass it on. At healthfinder.gov, we connect you with science-based prevention and wellness information you can act on today. We use social media to support you, your loved ones, and your community in healthy living, and to get your feedback on how we can continue to improve. We also use social media to connect you with people and organizations that can help you on your journey to living a healthier life. We invite you to join usand pass it on. Connect with healthfinder.gov using social media.

healthfinder.gov Content Syndication

healthfinder.gov content syndication lets you add easy-to-read, actionable, and evidence-based health information to your Web site. This free service from the National Health Information Center provides awardwinning content from our Quick Guide to Healthy Living. Content syndication is easy to use and maintenancefree. You can even customize the content to match your Web sites look and feel.

About Harvard Health Publications

Gordon Hall and other buildings on the quadrangle of the Harvard Medical School campus 1994 Harvard University, Photo by Liza Green.

Harvard Health Publications is the media and publishing division of the Harvard Medical School of Harvard University, under the direction of Dr. Anthony Komaroff, Editor in Chief. The goal of our publications is to bring people around the world the most current health information that is authoritative, trustworthy, and accessible, drawing on the expertise of the 10,000+ faculty physicians at Harvard Medical School. Working with partners in the media and publishing industry, Harvard Health Publications publishes information about health and wellness through all types of media: newsletters, reports, books, mobile apps, video, web-based interactive tools and our websites (www.health.harvard.edu andwww.HarvardProstateKnowledge.org) In addition, Harvard Health Publications content is made available to the public through a syndicated daily newspaper column as well through licensing arrangements with a wide range of public and corporate websites. Harvard Medical School was founded in 1782 and encompasses 18 affiliated hospitals with more than 11,000 members of the faculty, including more than 10,000 clinical physicians. Read more about the history of Harvard Medical School.

MEDSCAPE FROM WEBMD CONTENT

Medscape from WebMD offers specialists, primary care physicians, and other health professionals the Web's most robust and integrated medical information and educational tools. After a simple, 1-time, free registration, Medscape from WebMD automatically delivers to you a personalized specialty site that best fits your registration profile. Some of the key features of Medscape from WebMD are: Original, professional medical content, including review articles, journal commentary, expert columns, patient education articles, book reviews, and more; Conference Coverage: Thought leaders summarize key data and presentations from major medical meetings; The Internet's first primary-source medical journal, The Medscape from WebMD Journal of Medicine; Selected daily professional medical news in your specialty from Reuters, Medscape Medical News, and medical news journal publishers; Physician Optimized MEDLINE; Free subscription to Medscape's MedPulse, a weekly email newsletter that highlights what's new in your specialty on Medscape from WebMD; More than 125 medical journals and textbooks; Business, financial, managed care, and medical practice information; And more The result is a medical Web site rich in content, broad in appeal, and high in quality.

CONTENT ORGANIZATION

Medscape from WebMD is organized by medical specialty, with each supported specialty having its own customized Web site. Specialty content is evaluated, created, and presented under the guidance of a WebMD program director and a medical professional advisory board.

Most of the specialty Web sites are organized consistently so you'll know where to find your favorite features as you move from specialty to specialty. Each homepage, for example, typically contains the following sections, with feature articles selected for that specialty: In Focus: the top articles of the week (generally updated twice week); Today's News: the top news stories of the day (updated daily); News & Perspectives: sections on specific conditions or topics of interest; Expert Corner: Ask the Experts based on topics of concern according to specialty; Conference Center: reports and highlights from key medical meetings; Discussions: a forum for discussions with your peers; and Library: Journals, textbooks, and reference tools.

What is Healthlinks? Healthlink's (Net and Com) is an Internet site that provides the energy, cutting-edge information and networking knowledge of a group of volunteer healthcare, Internet and computer experts to bring you healthcare sites on the World-Wide Web. The core of Healthlink's is the largest healthcare specific searchable database on the Internet with over 270,000 links and growing larger each month. Our vision for Healthlinks is one where this site will be your starting point for locating healthcare resources. We pride ourselves that:

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Every link in our directory has been visited and reviewed for content, professionalism and validity, you will find very few non-healthcare links in our directory. . 99% of our links are unique resulting in searches that eliminate redundancies, not hundreds of duplicate listings. We actively scan our directory on a weekly basis to remove dead and invalid listings.

With Healthlinks, we have created an electronic community where you can use our free on-line discussions - forum area that allows you to post your questions and comments for others to respond to at a later time. We also offer an extensive array of continuing healthcare education opportunities in association with CEU4U. Finally, we have associations with CenterWatch where you will find extensive information on cancer based clinical trials, Highbeam, a very comprehensive library reference site, Trade Publications for free healthcare industry publications and Absolutely Health Care for employment services.

Our Focus and Expertise Our focus is on making the Internet a practical tool for research and collaboration within the healthcare community as well as a reference point for consumers seeking medical and healthcare information. Toward this end, the technical expertise of your hosts is balanced with the healthcare experience of our advisors who upon request, review the web sites in the Healthlinks directory to ensure their credibility. The volunteer staff at Healthlinks are on the Internet every day looking for new resources that bring real

value to healthcare consumers and professionals. We also encourage healthcare providers to place a link into our database. Look for our emblem on sites that have been visited and reviewed by our staff.

Our Mission To create a virtual community for health care

consumers and professionals that provides a number of ways for the exchange of ideas and opinions with others; and facilitating easy access to information of value while creating shelter from Internet hype and complexity.

http://www.hon.ch/

The Health On the Net Foundation (HON) promotes and guides the deployment of useful and reliable online health information, and its appropriate and efficient use. Created in 1995, HON is a non-profit, non-governmental organization, accredited to the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations. For 15 years, HON has focused on the essential question of the provision of health information to citizens, information that respects ethical standards. To cope with the unprecedented volume of healthcare information available on the Net, the HONcode of conduct offers a multi-stakeholder consensus on standards to protect citizens from misleading health information. HON is funded by the State of Geneva, several European projects, the French National Health Authority (HAS) and the Provisu foundation. HON is also supported by the Geneva Hospital since its inception.

About Us
UBM Medica is a leading healthcare media company providing tailored solutions to a global healthcare market. We provide reference data, decision support solutions, news and education to communities of general practitioners, specialist doctors, pharmacists, nurses and patients across 26 countries. We produce a range of professional media including data-rich directories, electronic and online products, journals and faceto-face meetings. The established and trusted reputation of our brands means that many of them are embedded in the daily workflow of the healthcare communities they serve. Serving healthcare professionals in Asia for nearly 40 years, UBM Medica is focused on providing tools to meet physicians' needs in their daily practice, as well as committing to support life long learning needs of healthcare professionals and consumers. MIMS Drug Information System is the most advanced, complete, and up-to-date information source on available products, delivering critical information needed at every point of care. MIMS Drug Information System is delivered across multiple platforms and channels, available in print, online and LAN, standalone or integrated. In the area of Continuing Medical Education, UBM Medica has developed a diverse platform of educational products and services in the form of live events, enduring materials in print, e-media and web.