Healthline Content Providers

The A.D.A.M. Health Illustrated Encyclopedia is a collection of approximately 3,600 healthcare articles containing images and illustrations on diseases, conditions, symptoms, injuries, surgeries, tests, nutrition and other preventive health topics. The articles are written in consumer-friendly language and undergo periodic expert medical review to provide consumers with accurate and trustworthy health information.

The mission of AHFS Drug Information® is to provide an evidence-based foundation for safe and effective drug therapy. Widely trusted for its established record in refuting unfounded efficacy claims, its rigorous science-based editorial process, and its independence from the influence of pharmaceutical manufacturers, AHFS has gained the unique distinction of being the longest published federally designated drug compendium issued by a scientific and professional society.

Since 1999, DestinationRx has evolved from a pioneer in prescription drug price comparison into the recognized industry leader. The company built and owns the most comprehensive drug therapy and price comparison database available, which is combined with proprietary technology to equip individual consumers and organizations with educational, strategic, and transaction-support tools to navigate the ever-changing healthcare marketplace. DestinationRx works with government agencies, such as Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, and some of the nation's largest commercial health plans and non-profit groups.

Gale®, a part of Cengage Learning, is a world leader in e-research and educational publishing for libraries, schools and businesses. Best known for its accurate and authoritative reference content as well as its intelligent organization of full-text magazine and newspaper articles, the company creates and maintains more than 600 databases that are published online, in print, as eBooks and in microform.

Gold Standard® is a leading developer of drug information databases, software, and clinical information solutions. Their products are developed by a staff of highly trained professionals with extensive experience in pharmacy practice, electronic publishing and software development. Gold Standard's customers include hundreds of hospitals, the nation's largest retail pharmacy chains and consultant pharmacy organizations, leading health information websites, and the nation's leading pharmacy and medical schools.

Harvard Health Publications is a division of the Harvard Medical School. The goal of all of Harvard Health publications is to bring the public, around the world, the most current practical, authoritative health information, drawing on the expertise of the 8,000 faculty physicians at the Harvard Medical School and its world-famous affiliated hospitals.

HealthiNation is the premier health video company that educates and inspires people to make healthier choices. Their targeted programs, developed by a team of leading physicians and media experts, cover disease and condition education as well as lifestyle tips, diet and personal stories. Through premium partner network and syndicated distribution capabilities, HealthiNation is able to connect with 40+ million unique health users online and more than 25 million cable TV homes.

HealthPricer Interactive Limited (HPC) is a leader in vertical Product Search for consumer health and beauty products. Led by a team of e-commerce veterans, the company has created the search industry's first normalized health Consumer Packaged Goods database. This database forms the underlying foundation for its award winning vertical product search and comparison shopping site: www.healthpricer.com and partner MarketPlaces.

Human Kinetics is the premier knowledge integrator in the physical activity field. Having served the physical activity field since 1974, HK produces textbooks and their ancillaries, consumer books, software, videos, audiocassettes, journals, and distance education courses.

Ingenix unites the brightest minds to transform organizations and improve health care through information and technology. Together with its clients and business partners, Ingenix is improving the affordability, quality, usability, and accessibility of health care.

Natural Standard was founded by clinicians and researchers to provide high quality, evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies. This international multidisciplinary collaboration now includes contributors from more than 100 eminent academic institutions.

Launched in 2008, the NBC Digital Health Network is a new business created under the NBC Universal Digital Media group and is focused on the multi-platform distribution of premium health video. Utilizing the original, condition-specific and healthy living videos created weekly across the company, the NBC Digital Health Network enables increased patient education by providing its distribution partners with the robust content they need to create an informative viewing experience for the millions of users looking for health information wherever they may be.

Reed Elsevier is the world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information and productivity-enhancing tools for the health and science communities, with products and services that include electronic and print journals, textbooks, reference works, and workflow solutions for researchers and clinicians.

The StayWell family of companies reaches 80 million individuals each year with print and online health information designed to improve the quality of their lives. This family of companies includes Krames, StayWell Health Management, Consumer Health Publishing Group/Harvard Health Publications, StayWell Productions, and the Red Cross Strategic Business Alliance. StayWell is a division of MediMedia USA and represents the largest patient education and consumer health information publisher in the U.S.

Topix.net is the Internet's largest news site, with over 360,000 topically based, news pages presenting the top stories for over 360,000 subjects, scanned from over 27,000 sources including newspapers, radio & TV stations, government information sites, magazines, corporate information sites and blogs. Topix.net's NewsRank™ technology provides a concept-based method towards categorizing news, instead of merely using a keyword based system. As a result, a reader of one of Topix.net's topical news pages is presented with only articles about that particular topic.