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>> Wednesday March 15, 5:00 pm Eastern Time

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>> Company Press Release

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>> SOURCE: Merck & Co., Inc.

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>>The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition Now Free on the

Web

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>> -- One Hundred Years of Trust to Guide You Online --

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>> WHITEHOUSE STATION, N.J., March 15 /PRNewswire/ -- The Merck Manual of

>> Medical Information -- Home Edition, the world's best selling and most

>> trusted home medical reference, is now available free online as a

>> public service at www.merckhomeedition.com . Written in everyday

>> language and backed by a century of trust, it is the first complete

>> home medical reference available on the Internet.

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>> ``This is the same trusted medical information that doctors have

>> relied upon in The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy for 100

>> years, but in everyday language. Now it is available free to the

>> public with the click of a mouse at www.merckhomeedition.com,'' said

>> Dr. Robert Berkow, editor in chief of The Merck Manuals. ``We created

>> The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition in 1997 to

>> help the public in its search for medical information. It quickly

>> became a best seller with 1.5 million copies sold. Now that it's free

>> online, searching for trustworthy medical information is easier than

>> ever.''

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>> As many as 75 million people use the Internet to learn about diseases,

>> symptoms, and treatments. Estimates of the number of health-related

>> Web sites range from 15 thousand to 100 thousand. Much of the

>> information is helpful, yet studies published in peer-reviewed medical

>> journals show that some sites convey inaccurate information that often

>> has not been examined by doctors or scientists.

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>> ``If you're going to use the Internet for information you get for your

>> own health or the health of family and loved ones, be careful. Go to

>> trusted sites and stay with brand-name identification, such as The

>> Merck Manual,'' said George D. Lundberg, MD, editor in chief, Medscape

>> and former editor, Journal of the American Medical Association.``

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>> At www.merckhomeedition.com , the public will find complete and

>> concise physician-reviewed medical information available, as a free

>> service from Merck & Co., Inc. (NYSE: MRK - news).

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>> The Merck Manual of Medical Information -- Home Edition is still

>> available wherever books are sold, in hardcover ($29.95) and paperback

>> ($7.99). It is based on The Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy,

>> first published in 1899 as a resource for physicians. The oldest

>> continuously published medical textbook in the English language, 17

>> editions of The Merck Manual have been published. Admiral Byrd carried

>> The Merck Manual as he flew over the South Pole, and Dr. Schweitzer

>> took it along to Africa. It is the most widely used medical reference

>> in the world, with more than 10 million copies sold in 16 languages.

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>> Merck's family of medical references also includes The Merck Manual of

>> Geriatrics, The Merck Veterinary Manual, and The Merck Index (an

>> encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals), all of which are

>> available as books and on CD-ROM. All these references are published

>> as a non-profit service to the scientific community by Merck & Co.,

>> Inc.

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>> Merck & Co., Inc., is a global research-driven pharmaceutical company

>> that discovers, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of

>> human and animal health products, directly and through its joint

>> ventures, and provides pharmaceutical benefit services through Merck -

>> Medco Managed Care.

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>> SOURCE: Merck & Co., Inc.

>> _______________

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>> Copyright ) 2000 .

 

 

 

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