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News, features and resources for media and publishing professionals. Friday, March 17, 2000 Blogs | Subscribe | Interviews | Events | Films | Book Blog Media Cynic | Forum | Advertising | Classifieds | Jobs Home Edition of The Merck Manual Available Free Online The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition, the best selling medical reference, is now available free online as a free service from Merck & Co., Inc. at www.merckhomeedition.com. ``This is the same trusted medical information that doctors have relied upon in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy for 100 years, but in everyday language. Now it is available free to the public with the click of a mouse at www.merckhomeedition.com,'' said Dr. Robert Berkow, editor in chief of The Merck Manuals. ``We created The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition in 1997 to help the public in its search for medical information. It quickly became a best seller with 1.5 million copies sold. Now that it's free online, searching for trustworthy medical information is easier than ever.'' ``If you're going to use the Internet for information you get for your own health or the health of family and loved ones, be careful. Go to trusted sites and stay with brand-name identification, such as The Merck Manual,'' said George D. Lundberg, MD, editor in chief, Medscape and former editor, Journal of the American Medical Association.`` The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition is still available in hardcover and paperback. It is based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy, first published in 1899 as a resource for physicians. Merck's family of medical references also includes The Merck Manual of Geriatrics, The Merck Veterinary Manual, and The Merck Index (an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals), all of which are available as books and on CD-ROM. All these references are published as a non-profit service to the scientific community by Merck & Co., Inc. 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.