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WebMD is available to both consumers and physicians, and contains several different health sites owned and run by WebMD, including WebMD Health, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, eMedicine Health, RxList and theheart.org. Image File history File links Information. ... Shortcut: WP:WIN Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia and, as a means to that end, also an online community. ... Shortcut: WP:NPOV Wikipedia policy is that all articles should be written from a neutral point of view. ... Shortcut: WP:RULES Wikipedia is a collaborative project and its founders and contributors have a common goal: Wikipedia has some policies and guidelines that help us to work toward that common goal. ... Medscape is a free site containing peer-reviewed information written at the level of physicians and other health profesionals, but open to anyone who registers. ... WebMD Health Corp. ... eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996. ...


WebMD Health, the site's main portal, is designed for consumers. It provides health information and it features over 90 lifestyle and condition areas, as well as an online community that includes over 140 moderated expert-led and peer-to-peer message boards.


Medscape is WebMD’s primary professional portal, it features 30 medical specialty areas and over 30 physician discussion boards.


WebMD also publishes WebMD the Magazine, a patient-directed publication distributed bimonthly to 85 percent of physician waiting rooms.[citation needed].


These portals and publications seek to provide users with a range of health information deemed to be relevant to their health profiles.


See also

Revolution Health Group is a United States-based corporation founded in July 2005 by Steve Case, who previously co-founded America Online. ... MedHelp is an American private corporation that was founded in February 1994 and pioneered the field of consumer health information and communities on the Internet, before WebMD or Yahoo!. // MedHelp partners with doctors from hospitals and medical research institutions like Partners HealthCare, The Cleveland Clinic Foundation, National Jewish Medical & Research...

External links

  • Official website
  • Medscape

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