Medicinenet.com

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**Description:**
Medicinenet.com is an online, healthcare media publishing company. It was started October 18, 1995. Medicinenet.com provides easy-to-read, in-depth, authoritative medical information for consumers. It has up-to-date news articles as well as what is new on the site. It has many features such as a symptom checker from WebMD, picture slideshows about different illnesses. It also has information about diseases and conditions as well as procedures and tests. It works with WebMD to acquire all of the different information.

It had a staff that is made up of qualified executives in the field of medicine, healthcare, Internet technology, and business. They are there to bring the consumers the most comprehensive medical information around. Also, it is produced by over 70 board certified physicians.

It averages about 7.2 million visitors a month.

**Applications:**
It has many applications that can be used in day-to-day activities. The symptom checker is one such thing. A user can put in what he or she has and it makes an educated guess as to what illness that user has.

[[image:WBMD_SymptomChecker.jpg width="101" height="153"]]
Another application the website can be used for is to find out information about an operation a user has to get. Users can also look up medical terms that confuse them, so that they can understand their doctors when they speak to them.

**Web Resources:**
http://www.alexa.com/data/details/main/medicinenet.com http://www.quantcast.com/medicinenet.com

**Related Terminology:**
WebMD

**Citations/References:**
[|http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/hp.asp]