McGraw-Hill Education's Best Selling Medical Reference Book Brings Important Information to Doctors' Fingertips.

Business Editors/Hi-Tech Writers

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 6, 2001

New Harrison's Online Provides Physicians and Medical Students with

Immediate Access to Critical Content and Services

For physicians and medical students, access to vital medical information just got easier.

McGraw-Hill Professional, a unit of McGraw-Hill Education, today launched the online version of the 15th edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the world's most prestigious medical reference book.

With the launch of the new edition, Harrison's Online has also expanded its capabilities to offer unmatched content and the ability to access up-to-date medical information in an efficient and timely manner.

"The most authoritative medical reference book is now even more comprehensive and user-friendly through the improvements we have made to Harrison's Online," said Robert Evanson, president of McGraw-Hill Education. "The original online version was launched three years ago and has given health care providers and medical students immediate and crucial access to medical information. We listened and learned from the medical community and made changes to meet their needs."

Content is updated on a daily basis, so with each visit, the 15th edition of Harrison's Online offers up-to-the-minute diagnostic, scientific and therapeutic data and research. The new Harrison's Online also includes more than 90 additional chapters on critical topics in internal medicine.

"Continual updates are especially important in the fields of science, technology and medicine, where important new developments occur at a very rapid pace," said Dr. Eugene Braunwald, editor in chief of Harrison's Online. "The Harrison's site allows medical professionals to stay current on essential topics and informed of developments in rapidly moving fields, such as genetics, cancer, HIV-AIDS and alternative medicine."

A new, modern design that includes color illustrations, high-quality photographs, treatment algorithms and diagnostic decision trees brings subject matter to life and facilitates understanding. In addition, physicians can use Harrison's Online to communicate with their colleagues and debate controversial topics.

The site enables doctors to participate in forum discussions on any category of interest - from newly approved drugs to solutions to clinical problems.

The Harrison's Online site is organized to ensure quick searches and easy navigation. For example, Harrison's Online offers a "Search" box on every page, and buttons and pop-ups allow a user to jump to pertinent material, including specific chapter sections, tables, figures and editorials that will provide further explanation or a differing opinion on a topic.

The online version also includes an alphabetical list of acronyms linked to definitions, a chronological list of Nobel Prize winners in medicine and biographies of selected Nobel Prize winners, self-assessment questions for exam preparation and an organized catalogue of external links to hundreds of Web sites that are relevant to a variety of medical topics explored in Harrison's.

Icons within Harrison's online chapters also refer users to related sites.

"Harrison's Online not only provides users with the latest clinical data and research developments at the click of a mouse, but through links to sites such as the Center for Disease Control, PubMed, and the FDA, we're ensuring access to more varied medical information, which will ultimately help physicians offer better care to their patients," said Dennis Kasper, incoming editor in chief of Harrison's 16th edition.

McGraw-Hill's Professional division also launched its new medical gateway site, AccessMedicine.com. In addition to Harrison's, AccessMedicine will offer online subscriptions to a growing list of McGraw-Hill's most important medical texts, including Hurst's The HEART, 10/e, The Metabolic and Molecular Bases of Inherited Disease, 8/e, and the AccessLange series.

"McGraw-Hill Education is committed to publishing our top medical content on the Internet. AccessMedicine.com will enable us to better meet the needs of medical professionals and students in the 21st century," said Mikael Engebretson, publisher of McGraw-Hill's medical Internet products. "As more physicians turn to the Internet for reliable medical information, we will continue to expand our online content and capabilities."

McGraw-Hill Education is a unit of The McGraw-Hill Companies (NYSE:MHP), a global information services provider meeting worldwide needs in the financial services, education and business information markets through leading brands such as Standard & Poor's and Business Week. Founded in 1888, the Corporation has more than 300 offices in 33 countries.

Sales in 2000 were $4.3 billion. Additional information is available at www.mcgraw-hill.com.