Health World Online Brings Natural Health Information to the Internet

"Americans are taking up natural remedies as never before. We spend some $6 billion annually on nutritional supplements - vitamins, minerals, herbs - and the market is growing by 20% every year." Newsweek, May 6, 1996

"Americans today are spending more than $165 million a year for the (homeopathic) preparations, and sales are rising 20-25% annually." Time, 1996

"According to the World Health Organization, 65-80% of the world's health care services can be classified as 'alternative.'" Los Angeles Times, January, 1996

While natural health and medicine were once dismissed as "fringe," alternatives to conventional medicine have become viable and respected avenues for consumers and health professionals. With the public's increasing awareness of natural health comes the challenge of shifting through the mountains of information being published and fed to them from a variety of sources. Another challenge is how to access that information.

Now, with the advent of the Internet, easy access to all kinds of health information is possible for millions of consumers and health professionals. For natural health information, HealthWorld Online (http://www.healthy.net) is the most comprehensive site on the Internet, and the only site that completely integrates conventional and natural health information.

Since its debut in March, HealthWorld Online has received accolades from consumers, health professionals and the media. Articles have appeared in the Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and more than a score of other newspapers. HealthWorld Online was named to InterEdge's Top 40 Internet Sites, and also received USA Today Online's Hot Site of the Day award.

HealthWorld Online is unique in its depth of information. Eleven major information centers covering all aspects of natural health care provide more than 15,000 pages of authoritative content, fully searchable by key word and concept. For consumers and healthcare practitioners alike, HealthWorld Online is an unprecedented resource for information on alternative and natural health. Here are just a few notable features:

Health Professionals' Guide - Twelve special services targeted to health professionals.

Library of Health and Medicine - thousands of valuable resources, including: The Textbook of Natural Medicine, from Bastyr University. Exclusive online edition of the Nutritional Influences on Illness, by Dr. Melvin Werbach - 3,000 pages of nutritional research from leading medical journals. Herbalgram - the award-winning professional medical journal.

Medline - HealthWorld Online is the only site on the Internet where users can access Medline, the database of the National Library of Medicine, absolutely free of charge.

Dr. Tom Ferguson, world-renowned author of Health Online and leader in the movement to medical self-care, is the site manager of HealthWorld Online's Self Care Center, and answers users' questions at "Ask Doc Tom."

Professional Association Network - hosting the websites of over 25 leading professional associations in complementary medicine.

Health Clinic - a comprehensive source of information, featuring: Natural remedies on over 200 diseases and conditions. 260 5 to 8 minute audio tapes from leading experts in natural medicine, including nutritional medicine expert Jonathan Wright, MD.

Classic Natural Health Books - A selection of out-of-print classic natural health books in full text, including Holistic Medicine by Dr. Ken Pelletier, professor, Stanford University.

Global Health Calendar - the Internet's most comprehensive listing of health-related events, symposiums, seminars and more.

From online CME courses, Medline, Natural Medicine Textbooks and Research Reports and Complementary Medicine Journals, to monographs on complementary medicine approaches to more than 200 diseases, HealthWorld Online is unparalleled in its scope and ease of use. In addition, HealthWorld Online's Advisory Board reads like a Who's Who in natural and conventional medicine.

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HealthWorld Online
Advisory Board


Don Ardell, PhD
Editor, Ardell Wellness Report


Mark Blumenthal
Executive Director
American Botanical Council


David Bresler, PhD, LAc
Associate Clinical Professor
Department of Anesthesiology
UCLA School of Medicine


Tom Ferguson, MD
Senior Associate
Center for Clinical Computing
Harvard School of Medicine
President, Self-Care Productions


James Gordon, MD
Clinical Professor
Depts. of Psychiatry & Family Medicine
Georgetown University Medical School


Elmer Green, PhD
Director Emeritus
Center for Applied Psychophysiology
The Menninger Clinic


Elson M. Haas, MD
Medical and Creative Director
Preventive Medical Ctr. of Marin, Inc.


Abram Hoffer, MD, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine
President
Canadian Schizophrenia Foundation


Michael Janson, MD
Vice-President, APMA


Lynn Keegan, PhD, RN
Past President, AHNA


Julian Kenyon, MD, (England)
Director
The Centre for the Study of
Complementary Medicine


Thomas Kruzel, ND
President, AANP


Susan Lark, MD
Stanford University Medical School
Dept. of Family and Community Med.


George Lewith, MA, MRCGP, MRCP,
(England)
Editor-in-Chief
Complementary Therapies in Medicine


Patricia Norris, PhD
Director
Life Sciences Institute for Mind/Body
Health


Kenneth R. Pelletier, PhD, MD (hc)
Senior Research Fellow
Stanford Center for Research in
Disease Prevention


Joseph Pizzorno, ND
President, Bastyr University




Judith Reichenberg-Ullman, ND,
MSW, DHANP
President
International Fdtn. for Homeopathy


Martin Rossman, MD
Co-director
Academy for Guided Imagery


Beverly Rubik, PhD
Director
Institute for Frontier Sciences


Bernie Siegel, MD
Founder, Exceptional Cancer Patients


Dana Ullman, MPH
President
Homeopathic Educational Services


Melvyn Werbach, MD
Assistant Clinical Professor
UCLA School of Medicine
Author
Nutritional Influences on Illness


Thomas R. Yarema, MD
Staff Physician
Emergency Medicine Department
Sharp Cabrillo Hospital


Janet Zand, OMD, LAc
Author, Lecturer, and Founder of
Zand Herbal Products

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