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MerckMedicus™ Provides Online and Wireless Access to Medical Resources With No Access Fees
SOURCE: Merck & Co., Inc
4:23PM, March 29, 2006
WEST POINT, PA, March 29, 2006 - MerckMedicus is an award-winning website that delivers unbiased medical information to healthcare professionals via their desktop PC, PDA, or wireless PDA/Smartphone. This trusted resource contains journals, textbooks, slide presentations, clinical guidelines, professional development resources, patient education materials and more - all with no access fees and no advertisements.
Quick links take registered users to leading resources, including:
- Harrison's Online: Includes drug information, practice guidelines, and patient handouts
- MD Consult: Features disease guidelines, textbooks and journals, patient education, and CME courses
- MEDLINE: Searchable PubMed database of more than 15 million citations
- Journals and Textbooks: Full-text articles and abstracts from more than 150 publications as well as leading medical textbooks across 20 specialties
MerckMedicus provides the features and resources that help physicians by providing content in an easy-to-use format including the following:
- New site navigation pages: Easy-to-read tabs along the top of the home page allow for efficient, quick links to the trusted medical resources that MerckMedicus offers.
- Expanded search functionality: Newly updated search engine provides users with more relevant search results from specific resources. Searches can be saved and run at a later time for convenience.
- PDA Tools: As the use of handheld devices and wireless technology continues to grow in clinical practice, Mobile MerckMedicus provides on-the-go access to select resources using a PDA. Users can access The Merck Manual, Pocket Guide to Diagnostic Tests, Reuters Medical News, and MEDLINE Journal Abstracts. Searches can be run with results sent directly to your PDA upon synchronization or by using your wireless connection.
- Clinical podcasts: Attend meetings without having to go anywhere. Get up-to-the minute medical news and hear the opinions of leading researchers while walking down the hospital corridor, exercising, or sitting at your desk. Free interview-style shows delivered via the Internet to your iPod, MP3 player, or computer offer you the latest in technology and convenience.
- Nomograms: Nomograms, used by physicians for a better understanding of cancer treatment options, risk estimates, and survival odds are now available on MerckMedicus for breast cancer, pancreatic cancer, gastric carcinoma, prostate prognosis with radiation, lung cancer, renal cell carcinoma, melanoma, and sarcoma.
If you're pressed for time, join MerckMedicus today. Visit www.merckmedicus.com and click on "Register Now" at the top of the home page. If you're already a registered user and are ready to go wireless, simply type www.merckmedicus.com into your handheld browser and use your existing user name and password for 24-hour access.
Technical experts are available to answer your questions Monday through Friday between 8 AM and 11 PM ET, at 1-800-489-5119.
MerckMedicus - Your Key to the Medical Internet.
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About Merck
Merck & Co., Inc. is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company dedicated to putting patients first. Established in 1891, Merck currently discovers, develops, manufactures and markets vaccines and medicines to address unmet medical needs. The Company devotes extensive efforts to increase access to medicines through far-reaching programs that not only donate Merck medicines but help deliver them to the people who need them. Merck also publishes unbiased health information as a not-for-profit service. For more information, visit www.merck.com.
Merck Forward-Looking Statement
This press release contains "forward-looking statements" as that term is defined in the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. These statements are based on management's current expectations and involve risks and uncertainties, which may cause results to differ materially from those set forth in the statements. The forward-looking statements may include statements regarding product development, product potential or financial performance. No forward-looking statement can be guaranteed, and actual results may differ materially from those projected. Merck undertakes no obligation to publicly update any forward-looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future events, or otherwise. Forward-looking statements in this press release should be evaluated together with the many uncertainties that affect Merck's business, particularly those mentioned in the cautionary statements in Item 1 of Merck's Form 10-K for the year ended Dec. 31, 2004, and in its periodic reports on Form 10-Q and Form 8-K, which the company incorporates by reference.
For additional information visit
http://www.merckmedicus.com
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