AccentHealth.com Enters Licensing Agreement With TheNaturalPharmacist.com.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers ROSEVILLE, Calif.--(BW HealthWire)--May 1, 2000 AccentHealth.com Expands its Health and Wellness Information to Include Leading Source of Complementary Health Content TheNaturalPharmacist.com (http://www.TNP TNP The New Paper (Singapore newspaper) TNP Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear (French) TNP Trattato di Non Proliferazione Nucleare (Italian) .com) and AccentHealth.com have announced a licensing agreement through which TNP.com will become a premier provider of natural health information for the consumer Web site, (http://www.accenthealth.com). AccentHealth.com is the consumer health Web site of Axolotl axolotl (ăk`səlŏt'əl), a salamander, Siredon mexicanum, found in certain lakes in the region of Mexico City, which reaches reproductive maturity without losing its larval characteristics. Corporation, a leading provider of multimedia e-health communications and patient care management solutions. Under the agreement, the AccentHealth.com community will have access to TNP.com's extensive Natural Health Encyclopedia of 181 health conditions and entries for 363 vitamins, minerals, herbs and supplements, as well as interactions for over 1,000 trade, generic, and families of drugs. This encyclopedia is an integral part of AccentHealth.com's new Complementary Health center, which provides users with the up-to-date information they need to make educated decisions on natural therapies ranging from acupuncture acupuncture (ăk`y  pŭng'chər), technique of traditional Chinese medicine, in which a number of very fine metal needles are inserted into the skin at specially designated points. to zinc. "Our information has been rigorously reviewed for scientific accuracy and we strive to keep abreast Verb 1. keep abreast - keep informed; "He kept up on his country's foreign policies" keep up, follow trace, follow - follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something; "We must follow closely the economic development is Cuba" ; "trace the of the latest research on herbs and supplements," said Matthew H. Carleson, president of TNP.com. "This methodology complements AccentHealth.com's commitment to help people live healthier, happier lives by providing trustworthy information based on the latest health and medical knowledge." AccentHealth.com is an authoritative and interactive health Web site dedicated to helping people improve their health by providing practical information on everything from nutrition to fitness to mind and body wellness. At AccentHealth.com, visitors can search an extensive medical database; read original features for condition-specific information; ask an expert a question on timely health topics; and personalize per·son·al·ize tr.v. per·son·al·ized, per·son·al·iz·ing, per·son·al·iz·es 1. To take (a general remark or characterization) in a personal manner. 2. To attribute human or personal qualities to; personify. health information through a variety of interactive tools. "The partnership between AccentHealth.com and TNP.com is a natural," said Karen-Lee Ryan, editor in chief of AccentHealth.com. "AccentHealth.com provides trustworthy information that empowers consumers to play an active role in managing their own health care. By licensing TNP.com's content, we are providing AccentHealth.com visitors with independent, science-based information about herbs, supplements, and other complementary treatments." About TheNaturalPharmacist.com TheNaturalPharmacist.com is a leading provider of science-based natural health content that is reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists, and provides consumers and health care professionals with balanced, accurate, and up-to-date natural health information. TheNaturalPharmacist.com is a division of Prima Communications, Inc. The privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. is based in Northern California Northern California, sometimes referred to as NorCal, is the northern portion of the U.S. state of California. The region contains the San Francisco Bay Area, the state capital, Sacramento; as well as the substantial natural beauty of the redwood forests, the northern and has twice been honored as one of America's 500 fastest growing companies by Inc. magazine, with an average annual growth rate of more than 30 percent. About AccentHealth AccentHealth is the Media Division of Axolotl Corporation, the leading provider of multimedia e-health communications and patient care management solutions. AccentHealth provides healthy lifestyle television programming, produced by CNN CNN or Cable News Network Subsidiary company of Turner Broadcasting Systems. It was created by Ted Turner in 1980 to present 24-hour live news broadcasts, using satellites to transmit reports from news bureaus around the world. , to nearly 18 million waiting room visitors per month. This information is expanded and enhanced on the consumer Web site, www.accenthealth.com, which delivers a broad database of health topics, tools, and communities to waiting room network visitors and health-conscious consumers daily. Axolotl's Professional Division provides Web-based clinical messaging products, known as Elysium, for secure clinical communication between physicians, hospitals, laboratories, pharmacies, radiology radiology, branch of medicine specializing in the use of X rays, gamma rays, radioactive isotopes, and other forms of radiation in the diagnosis and treatment of disease. centers, and medical groups. Through a strategic alliance with Gilat Satellite Networks Gilat Satellite Networks is a publicly-traded Israeli company (NASDAQ: GILT. TASE) Gilat designs, develops and markets satellite and hybrid networking products, services and solutions to operators in 85 countries. , Inc., Axolotl has the exclusive right to distribute Gilat's two-way broadband satellite communications network The transmission channels interconnecting all client and server stations as well as all supporting hardware and software. in the healthcare market. Statements in this press release concerning the Company's business outlook or future economic performance, anticipated profitability, revenues, expenses or other financial items, and service offering growth, together with other statements that are not historical facts, are "forward-looking statements forward-looking statement A projected financial statement based on management expectations. A forward-looking statement involves risks with regard to the accuracy of assumptions underlying the projections. " as that term is defined under the Federal Securities Laws. Any forward-looking statements are estimates, reflecting the best judgment of the party making such statements based upon currently available information and involve a number of risks, uncertainties and other factors which could cause actual results to differ materially from those stated in such statements. |
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