MedicineNet is an American
medical website that provides detailed information about
disease
A disease is a particular abnormal condition that negatively affects the structure or function of all or part of an organism, and that is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical conditions that a ...
s, conditions,
medication
A medication (also called medicament, medicine, pharmaceutical drug, medicinal drug or simply drug) is a drug used to diagnose, cure, treat, or prevent disease. Drug therapy (pharmacotherapy) is an important part of the medical field and re ...
s and general health.
Launch of website
The website ''MedicineNet.com'' was launched in 1995.
Personnel
William Shiel co-founded MedicineNet and continues today as the Chief Medical Editor.
Melissa Stöppler also serves on the MedicineNet Editorial Board
Stoppler and Shiel were co editors-in-chief of ''Webster's New World Medical Dictionary'', Year 2008, Third Edition.
Ownership
MedicineNet is an owned and operated site in the
WebMD
WebMD is an American corporation known primarily as an online publisher of news and information pertaining to human health and well-being. The site includes information pertaining to drugs. It is one of the top healthcare websites.
It was foun ...
Consumer Network, and was acquired by WebMD in December 2004.
Purpose
MedicineNet is a network of U.S. Board-Certified Physicians and Allied Health Professionals working together to provide the public with current, comprehensive medical information, written in easy to understand language.
Privacy policy and certification
MedicineNet, as part of the WebMD Consumer Network, adheres to the same
privacy policy
A privacy policy is a statement or legal document (in privacy law) that discloses some or all of the ways a party gathers, uses, discloses, and manages a customer or client's data. Personal information can be anything that can be used to identif ...
as WebMD.com, and is certified by the TRUSTe online privacy certification program.
In addition, MedicineNet is
HONcode
Health On the Net Foundation (HON) is a Geneva, Switzerland-based not-for-profit organization which promotes a code of conduct for websites providing health information and offers certificates to those in compliance.
In September 2022, Health O ...
certified to be in compliance with the Health on the Net health website principles.
Internet Traffic
MedicineNet is ranked #5 in the July 2017 eBizMBA Top 15 Most Popular Health Websites.
References
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External links
top health Medicine (Tophealthmedicine website)
American medical websites
Internet properties established in 1996
1996 establishments in the United States