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Thursday, April 15, 1999 Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Salon.com Launches New Health & Body Site Salon.com, formerly known as Salon Magazine, has announced the launch of Health & Body, a daily site covering health issues ranging from biomedical ethics to alternative medicine and fitness. Salon's new health site is being sponsored by drkoop.com, the official website of Dr. C. Everett Koop, the former U.S. Surgeon General. The partnership will provide Salon readers access to drkoop.com's health content. "We are delighted to be associated with drkoop.com," says David Talbot, Salon's editor in chief, CEO and founder. "drkoop.com is the best provider of health information on the Web today. We could not imagine a better partnership." "Salon is known for its loyal community of information-seeking consumers. drkoop.com is pleased to provide trusted health information for their users to help them better manage their health," said Donald Hackett, president and CEO of drkoop.com. Salon's new Health & Body site will feature writing from top contributors to the health field: Correspondent Arthur Allen has written about science and for the Washington Post. Correspondent Sally Lehrman specializes in medical technology and has written for Health and Nature magazines. Columnist Mary Roach will offer her witty take on current health issues. The site will also feature Health Log, daily short news pieces, an interactive Life and Death Stories department where readers can share their stories, and DUH!, a regular feature on "startling" medical studies that discover the obvious. Says Karen Croft, editor of the new site, "Salon's Health & Body site will do what no other health site or magazine does: combine aggressive reporting, intelligent and fearless commentary and literary writing to make a compelling daily package of health-related journalism. Medical Economics Company Launches memag.com The Medical Economics Company has announced that it has launched memag.com, a website featuring articles from its flagship magazine, Medical Economics, as well as additional resources for physicians who want breaking news and advice on medical practice and personal finance. Memag.com is part of the PDR.net(SM) site, which offers practicing physicians a library of relevant healthcare and medical information, including online access to the Physicians' Desk Reference and other key resources and databases at no cost. "Memag.com offers the same comprehensive coverage of practice management, personal finance, doctor-patient relations, and doctors' family lives that have been the hallmarks of Medical Economics(R) magazine for the past 75 years," says editor Jeff Forster. "But memag.com goes one step further by providing fast access to expert advice on everything from malpractice insurance to tax and investment planning in a dynamic, interactive format." Medical Economics Company is a leader in healthcare information publishing and communications, providing magazines, directories, newsletters, databases, and new media products and services to healthcare professionals, institutions, and consumers. Medical Economics Company (Montvale, NJ) is part of the Thomson Healthcare Information Group, a division of The Thomson Corporation (Toronto, TOC). Women.com Networks Cooks Up New Food Channel The Women.com Networks has unveiled HomeArts.com's newly revitalized Food Channel. Featuring expanded content, services and features that visitors can customize to reflect their personal preferences, the Food Channel is the latest addition to the ever-growing Women.com Networks, which now includes all areas of HomeArts.com and Astronet. The centerpiece of the new Food Channel is a free-of-charge and customizable feature called My File Cabinet, where users can build and store selected editorial content such as recipes, favorite restaurants, shopping lists and menu planning options. The Food Channel has also been upgraded with an enhanced Recipe Finder database that contains thousands of recipes from noted cookbooks and Hearst magazines such as Redbook, Good Housekeeping and Mr. Food's Easy Cooking. The recipes can be transported into the visitor's personalized Shopping List and Menu Planner. "The newly enhanced Food Channel reinforces the Women.com Networks position as the Web's smartest and most efficient place for women on the Web," said Steven Wagner, Vice President of Programming for the Women.com Networks. "The area's new content and features far outrank any other food-related sites and is receiving an enthusiastic response from our new and returning visitors." Click here to return to the homepage of The Write NewsTM Click here to subscribe to our free weekly email newsletter.  www.writenews.com Copyright © 1997-2007 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved. |
