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Medscape Physician Connect Becomes Largest Online Physician Social Network with More than 100,000 Physicians
NEW YORK, Dec 15, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ --
WebMD Health Corp. (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading source of health information, today announced that Medscape Physician Connect, the online social network designed for physicians to engage other physicians, has attracted more than 100,000 physicians since launching just this past April.
Medscape Physician Connect is part of Medscape.com, the leading site for physicians and healthcare professionals. Through Medscape Physician Connect, physicians have the ability to tap into their peer community through reading existing discussions, posting comments or creating new discussion topics. For further insights, physicians can create polls for other physicians to vote in for tailored, constructive feedback. The platform allows physicians to gain and exchange clinical and non-clinical information on topics ranging from patient care, drug information, medical legislation and practice management to non-clinical areas of interest.
"Medscape's Physician Connect builds on our more than 10 years of online community experience to provide physicians with a private online destination to communicate in areas ranging from clinical issues to politics," said Steve Zatz, M.D., Executive Vice President, Professional Services, WebMD.
Building off of Medscape's rich history of physician discussions, Medscape Physician Connect also features:
-- 30+ specialty and non-clinical areas covering clinical discussions, as
well as other areas of interest including lifestyle/travel,
business/practice management to politics/legislation and technology
-- Includes ability to create user polls for community feedback and upload
images to enhance discussions
-- Star rating system for users to rank most interesting discussions in
community
-- Ability to add interesting discussions to a 'watch list' to
receive real-time in-session and email alerts when new comments are
posted
-- Medscape's innovative video blogs with commentary from the
country's leading medical experts
About WebMD
WebMD Health Corp. (Nasdaq: WBMD) is the leading provider of health information services, serving consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through our public and private online portals and health-focused publications. WebMD Health Corp. is a subsidiary of HLTH Corporation (Nasdaq: HLTH). The WebMD Health Network reaches approximately 50 million visitors a month through its leading owned and operated health sites that include WebMD Health, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, eMedicine Health, RxList and theheart.org.
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NEW YORK, Oct 10, 2008 /PRNewswire-FirstCall via COMTEX News Network/ -- WebMD Health Corp. (Nasdaq: WBMD), the leading provider of health information services, stated that it has experienced a strong increase in sales of its online promotional and educational programs in both the pharmaceutical and consumer products markets during the September 2008 quarter. These sales represent a significant increase in advance commitments for 2009, compared to the same period in the prior year. Accordingly, WebMD indicated that it has not experienced the weakness in online sales that has recently been reported in other sectors of online media and advertising.
WebMD stated that it expects its third quarter financial results to be at the low end of its prior financial guidance. The company expects to report that online advertising revenues increased more than 20% in the third quarter, as compared to the prior year period. Traffic to the WebMD Health Network during the third quarter grew substantially, to an average of more than 49 million monthly unique visitors and to 1.1 billion total page views, increases of more than 20% and 30%, respectively, over the prior year period.
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