McGraw-Hill Education Offers Free Online Information About Smallpox.

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NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 10, 2003

Anthony S. Fauci, MD, International Authority on Bioterrorism,

Contributes to Timely Public Service Effort

Assuming a major role in disseminating essential medical information when it is needed the most, McGraw-Hill Professional, a division of McGraw-Hill Education, is making expert content on smallpox freely available from its renowned online medical resource, Harrison's Online.

The material was compiled by Anthony S. Fauci, MD, ScD (Hon) who played a prominent role in drafting and implementing the official U.S. government policy on smallpox vaccination. Dr. Fauci who is the Director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Disease, National Institutes of Health, as well as a Harrison's editor, is a recognized expert on bioterrorism-related diseases.

"As a possible agent for bioterrorism or biological warfare, there is a dramatic urgency for smallpox to be fully understood by both the medical community as well as the general public," said Mikael Engebretson, publisher of Harrison's Online. "As the premier publisher of medical resources, McGraw-Hill is uniquely qualified to offer authoritative, up-to-date, and unbiased coverage of this potentially lethal viral disease. We are delighted to have someone with Dr. Fauci's credentials join us in this effort." Engebretson explained.

By visiting http://www.harrisonsonline.com/, subscribers and non-subscribers can access relevant chapters and updates from the 15th Edition of Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, the world's most prestigious medical reference, essential articles from the New England Journal of Medicine, the Center for Disease Control, MEDLINE, the National Library of Medicine, and JAMA. Users will also find a detailed summary of President Bush's U.S. Smallpox Vaccination Program.

In earlier public service efforts, McGraw-Hill was applauded for offering complimentary access to valuable online information on West Nile Virus as well as Anthrax and other bioterrorism-related diseases. "McGraw-Hill has a wonderful tradition of meeting the informational needs of the medical community and general public during difficult times - this is just the latest instance." said Michael Hays, publisher of McGraw-Hill's Scientific, Technical, and Medical Group.

Harrison's Online, is the most authoritative online reference available to the medical community and the only internal medicine reference to provide extensive daily updates and clinical trials to the healthcare community. Harrison's is published by McGraw-Hill Education and part of the AccessMedicine.com suite of medical reference databases.

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