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Consult a Physician on Yupi.com; Alliance with SALUD.COM will Allow Users to Obtain Answers to Health-Related Questions from a Select Group of Doctors, Without Leaving Yupi.com.


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MIAMI BEACH Miami Beach, city (1990 pop. 92,639), Dade co., SE Fla., on an island between Biscayne Bay and the Atlantic Ocean; inc. 1915. It is connected to Miami by four causeways. , Fla.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 1, 2000

Yupi.com (http://www.yupi.com), a leading Spanish-language portfolio of Internet sites, has reached an agreement with Miami-based, Spanish-language health portal, SALUD.COM (http://www.SALUD.COM). Through this agreement, a select group of physicians will be available, online, daily to answer questions on health-related issues and discuss overall well-being.

The alliance offers SALUD.COM, as Yupi.com's premier health content provider, considerable exposure and provides Yupi.com users access to the most comprehensive and current health-related information on the web. Yupi.com has over 4 million registered users and more than 9 million unique visits per month.

"This alliance represents a great new opportunity for Yupi.com to contribute to improved health, and elevate the overall quality of life for our networks' many users," said Gustavo Morles, Vice President of Content and Business Development at Yupi.com. "The fact that we can assist in tackling something as critical as health-related issues with our users, represents the development of a more integrated and personal experience with the Internet."

"Our mission at SALUD.COM is to provide Spanish-language Internet users with the most up-to-date and comprehensive medical information available today," said John G. Carlson, President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO)

The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president.
. "The partnership with Yupi.com allows us to offer this valuable information to a large number of loyal users, thus reaching our goal of elevating the quality of life for people around the world."

Carlson also announced that "The University of Miami This article is about the university in Coral Gables, Florida. For the university in Oxford, Ohio, see Miami University.

The University of Miami (also known as Miami of Florida,[2] UM,[3] or just The U
 School of Medicine (UM/JMH) and the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission  School of Medicine in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850.  have signed agreements to become members of SALUD.COM's Medical Advisory Board. In this role, these institutions, along with other prominent medical centers across the country, will provide original health-related articles, stories and other medical information to SALUD.COM on a monthly basis. All of this information will be readily available on Yupi.com."

About SALUD.COM

SALUD.COM is a Spanish-language online medical community focusing on health-related topics, including exercise, nutrition and alternative medicine. With a dynamic team of medical professionals on staff and partnerships with some of the U.S.'s leading medical institutions, SALUD.COM provides users with a comprehensive package of health-related information and services. SALUD.COM provides its users with the tools, research findings, in-depth information, medical databases, online medical advice, seminars and open forums necessary to obtain solutions that lead to healthy living.

About Yupi.com

The Yupi.com network is comprised of Internet sites featuring portals and web-based communities. Some examples of the online properties that are featured within the network are Yupi.com, its flagship portal site; Ciudad Futura (www.cuidadfutura.com), one of the world's first Spanish-language virtual communities, supported by collaborators from around the world; and Bogota.com (www.bogota.com), a Colombia-based comprehensive city guide that provides information on restaurants, hotels, arts and entertainment. Yupi.com responds to the high demand for high quality, easy access to Spanish-language content on the Internet. Yupi.com is headquartered in Miami Beach, Florida “Miami Beach” redirects here. For the beach in Barbados, see Miami Beach, Barbados.
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Miami Beach is a city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States.
 (USA) and currently has offices in Los Angeles, California (USA), Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Spain. For more information, please visit (http://www.yupi.com).

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  • Sony Electronics Inc.
, J. & W. Seligman & Co. Incorporated, News Corp., Comcast Interactive Capital and Bank of America
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