OptumHealth Offers Consumer-Focused Health Information Web Site.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-8 December 2008-OptumHealth Offers Consumer-Focused Health Information Web Site(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com OptumHealth Inc., the health and wellness business of UnitedHealth Group, announced the launch of myOptumHealth.com, a free consumer health and wellness Web site designed to assist the 76 million Internet consumers...

Addressing underutilization of consumer health information resource centers: a formative study * (RMP).
Problem: Four consumer health information centers in Richmond, Virginia, provide one-on-one assistance in accessing health information. Because they may not be fully utilized at present, an exploratory marketing study of factors affecting usage of the centers was conducted. Method: Observers counted center passers-by and tracked their paths....

WebMD Teams With FDA for New Online Consumer Health Information.
New Partnership to Inform and Educate Tens of Millions of Americans NEW YORK, Dec. 3 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- WebMD , a leading source of health information, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration today announced a collaboration that expands consumers' access to the agency's timely and reliable important...

Thomson and A.D.A.M. Partner to Provide Best-in-Class Consumer Health Information for Healthcare Organizations.
Leading Healthcare Information Providers Collaborate to Develop an Integrated Consumer Offering Designed to Help Patients Navigate Today's Consumer-Driven Healthcare Environment GREENWOOD VILLAGE, Colo., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Thomson Micromedex, a Thomson healthcare business (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC), and A.D.A.M., Inc. , a leading provider of consumer health...

Free and reliable consumer health information for patients.
Authoritative consumer health information from the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Library of Medicine is available from any Internet-accessible computer. These two government agencies jointly sponsor the website MedlinePlus at MedlinePlus.gov. Launched in 1998, the site's information is updated daily and covers more than 700...

Adolescent health sourcebook; basic consumer health information about the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of adolescents..., 2d ed.
0780809432 Adolescent health sourcebook; basic consumer health information about the physical, mental, and emotional growth and development of adolescents..., 2d ed. Ed. by Joyce Brennfleck Shannon. Omnigraphics, Inc. 2007 683 pages $87.00 Hardcover ...

WebMD and FDA Join Forces for New Online Consumer Health Info.
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-3 December 2008-WebMD and FDA Join Forces for New Online Consumer Health Info(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com WebMD, a source of health information, and the U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced a collaboration that expands consumers' access to the agency's timely and reliable important...

Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools.
HEALTH AND BEAUTY CLOSE-UP-10 October 2008-Magellan Health Services and Healthwise Team for New Behavior Change Tools(C)2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Magellan Health Services, a specialty health care management organization, and Healthwise, a provider of consumer health information, are teaming to offer Healthwise's Information Therapy (Ix) Conversations behavior...

The internet as a source of health information in three disparate communities.
Abstract A survey questionnaire was designed and implemented across three different communities to determine the current utilisation, importance, trust and future preference for the internet as a source of health information in three different socioeconomic groups. The following were the key results. Fewer respondents in the low...

Consumer health web page.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has launched a Web page, Consumer Health Information for You and Your Family (www.fda.gov/consumer), and a related e-newsletter, FDA Consumer Health Information (www.fda.gov/consumer/consumerenews.html). The Web page provides FDA news bulletins; links to information about the products that FDA regulates, including food, human and...