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WebMD Health Corp. (NASDAQ: WBMD) is the leading provider of online health information services to consumers, physicians, healthcare professionals, employers and health plans through public and private online portals and health-focused publications. WebMD is a subsidiary of Emdeon Corporation (NASDAQ: HLTH). WebMD reaches consumers and physicians through its owned and operated health sites in the WebMD Health Network, including WebMD Health, Medscape, MedicineNet, eMedicine, eMedicine Health, RxList and theheart.org. WebMD Health, WebMD’s primary consumer portal, provides timely and objective health information and 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, WebMD’s primary professional portal, features 30 medical specialty areas and over 30 physician discussion boards. Designed to help physicians and healthcare professionals stay current on medical and scientific research and findings, Medscape is the leading provider of online continuing medical education (CME) and provides CME activities in a variety of interactive and text-based formats. WebMD publishes WebMD the Magazine, a patient-directed publication distributed bimonthly to 85 percent of physician waiting rooms. WebMD also publishes medical reference textbooks ACP Medicine and ACS Surgery, and The Little Blue Book, a comprehensive physician contact directory. WebMD also provides private online health and benefit management portals to large employers and health plans in order to enable their employees and plan members to make more informed benefit, treatment and provider decisions. Through a single, secure interface individuals can access all of their personal health information and receive relevant health information based on their own health profile. WebMD also integrates decision support services that enable individuals to improve their overall wellness and choose health services and providers that best fit their needs.
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