AEGiS-PRn: Medscape's Conference News Online Provides In-Depth Coverage of the Nation's Largest Medical Meeting

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Medscape's Conference News Online Provides In-Depth Coverage of the Nation's Largest Medical Meeting

PR Newswire; Tuesday September 15, 1998

NEW YORK, Sept. 15 /PRNewswire/ -- Want to be as up-to-date on hypertension, attention deficit disorder, HIV infection, and dementia as your family physician? Want to know what your doctor is finding out about these and other chronic conditions at the nation's largest medical meeting?

Log onto Medscape (http://www.medscape.com) and its Conference News Online coverage of the annual meeting of American Academy of Family Physicians in San Francisco, September 16-20.

Medscape's editorial staff of physician reporters will post in-depth, clinically focused summaries of clinical information discussed at the meeting within hours of its presentation. In addition, Real Audio interviews with several presenters will enable Medscape site visitors to listen to key points in the presenters' own words.

The Conference News Online reports are geared to a physician audience but available to anyone who wants a clinical update on how to diagnose and treat the nation's most important health problems.

Medscape, a free site, has more than 600,000 registered members including over 125,000 physicians. It features the Web's largest collection of freely available, peer-reviewed, full-text articles and continuing medical education programs. Medscape also provides exclusive access to the world's largest Web-based drug and disease First Databank; a powerful, yet easy-to-use, interface to MEDLINE and other extensive databases of the National Library of Medicine; and thousands of other exclusive articles, and interactive features. A new physician joins Medscape every six minutes, and its members view over one million pages a week.

SOURCE: Medscape

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