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Wednesday, March 8, 2000 GayHealth.com to Launch April 15, 2000 GayHealth.com, an online health and wellness resource founded by lesbian and gay medical professionals, has tapped Web engineering company Mediapolis, inc. to build the site. GayHealth.com will serve the lesbian and gay community as a confidential resource on subjects about physical and emotional health. The site, founded by two leaders in lesbian and gay health, Dr. Stephen E. Goldstone and Dr. Susan C. Ball, will launch on April 15 with news and feature stories, community forums, surveys, a store and a strong privacy policy. ``We needed a website that could deliver plenty of content and features -- without compromising the privacy of our users,'' said Dr. Goldstone. ``Based on their experience in both the healthcare and the lesbian and gay worlds, we chose Mediapolis.'' Mediapolis has built and operates health-related websites for Duke University Medical Center (MenopausalHealth.com); Novartis (Transdermscop.com); SpineWire.com, an online spinal injury community; Medical Tribune (MedicalTribune.com); and American Druggist magazine's (AmericanDruggist.com). The company also built and operated online drugstore yourPharmacy.com for pharmacy benefits manager Express Scripts, which sold the site to PlanetRx on the eve of its IPO last fall. ``We're combining the content and commerce management solutions of our health sites with the personality and community of our lesbian and gay sites,'' said Carl Pritzkat, co-founder of Mediapolis, Inc. ``GayHealth.com will look and feel like no other health and wellness site on the Web.'' 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 © 1997-2011 by Writers Write, Inc. All Rights Reserved.