ConsumerLab.com Selects HealthGate's `The Natural Pharmacist' Content for Its Online Guide to Health and Nutrition Products.Business Editors and Health/Medical Writers BURLINGTON, Mass.--(BW HealthWire)--June 12, 2002 -- Independent Consumer & Professional Advocacy Group Taps TNP TNP The New Paper (Singapore newspaper) TNP Tratado de No Proliferación Nuclear (French) TNP Trattato di Non Proliferazione Nucleare (Italian) Credibility for Complementary and Alternative Medicine The term complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) is an umbrella term for alternative medicine and complementary medicine. Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments. Information -- HealthGate Data Corp., (OTCBB OTCBB See OTC Bulletin Board (OTCBB). : HGAT), a market-leading provider and electronic publisher of healthcare information for health-related organizations, today announced it signed a licensing agreement with ConsumerLab.com, an independent firm that provides test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health and nutrition products. As part of the agreement, ConsumerLab.com has licensed HealthGate's complete "The Natural Pharmacist pharmacist /phar·ma·cist/ (fahr´mah-sist) one who is licensed to prepare and sell or dispense drugs and compounds, and to make up prescriptions. phar·ma·cist n. " (TNP) content suite, which includes an expansive encyclopedia on supplements and herbs, and a database on drug interactions between natural and traditional medicines. " `The Natural Pharmacist' perfectly complements our mission to identify the best quality health and nutrition products through independent testing," said Tod Cooperman, MD, president of ConsumerLab.com. "Our subscribers can now use TNP to learn whether a natural product is right for them and then access ConsumerLab.com's Product Reviews to see which brands are best. With its comprehensive, up-to-date and easy-to-understand information on natural health products, TNP meets our tough standards for unbiased, high-integrity and evidence-based information." Subscribers to ConsumerLab.com will have broad access to The Natural Pharmacist content, which includes information on vitamins, supplements and natural health remedies, as well as comprehensive information on herbal and traditional drug interactions. "ConsumerLab.com and HealthGate bring an unparalleled level of credibility to the often subjective field of natural and alternative medicine," said Bill Reece, HealthGate's CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. . "By offering subscribers access to TNP's unbiased information, ConsumerLab.com is helping to arm consumers and health professionals alike with the tools they need to make informed choices about alternative and natural health resources." According to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. a recent Journal of American Pharmaceutical Association(1) article, approximately 50 percent of Americans are purchasing herbal supplements, yet more than 70 percent never mention their use of these supplements to their physicians, potentially increasing health risks. TNP's evidence-based content is developed and reviewed by a team of physicians and pharmacologists with the goal of providing reliable information without hype, exaggeration, selective reporting or misrepresentation misrepresentation In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation. . About ConsumerLab.com ConsumerLab.com, LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control ("CL") provides independent test results and information to help consumers and healthcare professionals evaluate health, wellness, and nutrition products. It publishes results of its tests online at www.consumerlab.com, including listings of brands that have passed testing. Products that pass CL's testing are eligible to bear the CL Seal of Approval. CL addresses a growing need of consumers and healthcare professionals for better information to guide the selection of health, wellness, and nutrition products. About HealthGate HealthGate Data Corp. (OTCBB: HGAT) is a market-leading provider and electronic publisher of healthcare information. HealthGate offers customers the most comprehensive content repository of healthcare information, unrivaled in its breadth and depth of content. HealthGate's authoritative content is used by more than 600 hospitals in the U.S. to provide the capability to drive down costs through more effective research and treatment, regulatory compliance, and clinician and patient education. The company's multi-dimensional XML-based content can be delivered electronically across virtually any technology and tightly integrated into a variety of applications used by its customers. Since 1999, HealthGate has become an integral part of operations in approximately 12 percent of all hospitals in the United States Lists of hospitals for each U.S. state:
Swedish Medical Center is a large nonprofit health care provider located in Seattle, Washington. , and HCA HCA, n.pr See acid, hydroxycitric. now utilize the data provided by HealthGate. The company's content repository is supported by a flexible, multi-dimensional technology infrastructure designed to enable HealthGate to rapidly develop products and services for customers as well as additional markets such as pharmaceutical companies and payors (insurance companies, governments, and self-insured organizations). Forward Looking Statements This press release contains certain statements that are forward-looking within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995. HealthGate's actual results may differ materially from those contemplated by the 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. . These forward-looking statements reflect management's current expectations, are based on many assumptions and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties, including among other things, HealthGate's ability to generate sufficient revenues; HealthGate's ability to sell its products and services; HealthGate's ability to develop and implement its Project Intellect strategic initiative; reliance on significant customers; unpredictability of quarter-to-quarter results; competition; reliance on content providers, computer systems and software; HealthGate's ability to retain and attract key personnel; and other risk factors that are described in the periodic reports and other documents HealthGate files from time to time with the Securities and Exchange Commission. HealthGate does not intend to update or publicly release any revisions to the forward-looking statements. (1) Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association, Vol. 41, No. 6, November/December 2001 |
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