McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine Forms Alliance With Center for the Advancement of Health

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a leading provider of print and digital reference and educational content, has joined forces with the Center for the Advancement of Health to deliver timely health-related information on McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com, an innovative online service that provides the medical community with internationally recognized resources.

Through the alliance, AccessMedicine.com now offers a daily e-news digest and news stories about the latest research on the interaction between behavior and health provided by the Health Behavior News Service (HBNS). HBNS is a resource of the Center for the Advancement of Health, generating readable, accurate, and useful news stories on health promotion, disease prevention, chronic conditions and health care services. Staffed by accomplished health journalists, HBNS was recently designated by the National Institute of Standards and the U.S. Department of Energy as "a best-practice for communication of science and technology to the public."

"The Center for the Advancement of Health, known for its evidence-based content taken from peer-reviewed journals and research, complements the authoritative resources of AccessMedicine exceptionally well," said Michael Hays, vice president of McGraw-Hill Digital. "Busy physicians need to know the daily medical developments affecting their patients so they can anticipate and answer their questions."

This new health news content in AccessMedicine.com is grouped in two categories. The first category, What Your Patients Are Reading, provides links to articles in the trade press, posted each business day at 11:00 AM EST. This allows users to scan the "best of" the day's health headlines in real time. The second content category, Systematic Reviews in the News, summarizes-in layman's terms-findings of ongoing clinical trials and investigations affecting patients' daily lives and health. Excerpted from The Cochrane Library, the reviews draw evidence-based conclusions about medical practice from the content and quality of existing trials. The Cochrane Library, published by The Cochrane Collaboration, is an international organization that evaluates medical research.

To learn more about the health news in McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine, visit http://www.accessmedicine.com/.

About McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online service that provides instant answers from trusted content for researchers, students, residents, practitioners, and allied health professionals. Updated daily, AccessMedicine provides access to world-renowned medical references including Harrison's Online, Current Medical Diagnosis and Treatment, a LANGE educational library, and much more. The premier resource for medical information, AccessMedicine includes special features including content updates, the Gold Standard Clinical Pharmacology drug database, an innovative search platform, the ability to download content to a mobile device, and much more. For more information, visit http://www.accessmedicine.com/.

About Center for the Advancement of Health

The Center for the Advancement of Health, in Washington, D.C., is an independent nonprofit organization that helps people make decisions about their health and health care by translating evidence of how psychological, social, behavioral, economic and environmental factors influence health and illness.

About McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing is a leading global provider of print and digital reference and educational content for the healthcare industry. It is a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, a division 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 McGraw-Hill Education, Standard & Poor's and BusinessWeek. Founded in 1888, the Corporation has more than 300 offices in 40 countries. Sales in 2004 were $5.3 billion. Additional information is available at http://www.mcgraw-hill.com/.

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