Health Websites

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Top 7 Most Popular Health Websites*

1. WebMD.com 12,228,178 Inbound Links - 19,863,624 Compete Monthly Visitors

2. NIH.gov 16,661,993 Inbound Links - 8,564,156 Compete Monthly Visitors

3. MedicineNet.com 1,032,253 Inbound Links - 5,785,245 Compete Monthly Visitors

4. MayoClinic.com 512,897 Inbound Links - 6,258,849 Compete Monthly Visitors

5. Drugs.com 627,853 Inbound Links - 4,078,840 Compete Monthly Visitors

6. Yahoo! Health 204,616 Inbound Links - 5,419,850 Compete Monthly Visitors

7. RxList.com 823,330 Inbound Links - 2,353,736 Compete Monthly Visitors

*Updated: November 2009

WebMD

WebMD Health Corporation is an American provider of health information services. It is primarily known for its public Internet site, which has information regarding health and health care, including a symptom checklist, pharmacy information, blogs of physicians with specific topics and a place to store personal medical information. The site was reported to have received over 17.1 million average monthly unique visitors in Q1 2007 and is the leading health portal in the United States. The site receives information from accredited individuals[citation needed and is reviewed by a medical review board consisting of four physicians to ensure accuracy.

eMedicine

eMedicine is an online clinical medical knowledge base that was founded in 1996 by Scott Plantz and Richard Lavely, two medical doctors.[citation needed] It was sold to WebMD in January 2006. The site is a free, open source textbook, contributed to by more than 10,000 contributors with more than 6,500 articles. Operated as an e-book, it is divided into chapters and can be downloaded into a palm top device. The site's coverage of dermatology has been described as excellent and comprehensive, with continuous learning questions that accompany each chapter. It was originally conceived as an emergency medicine textbook but its mandate has expanded considerably since then to include dermatology, internal medicine, sports medicine, surgery as well as other specialities.