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ehealthMD is brought to you by Health Information Publications (HIP), a company specializing in creating outstanding, reliable, up-to-date health information delivered over the Web. We are committed to leading the field in offering the most authoritative, visually compelling, and dynamically presented health information in the world. Our mission is to produce the "gold standard" for health information on the Internet. Our content is designed to reach a worldwide audience of people looking for high-quality, well-researched health information relevant to them. Our company's roots were planted in the 1980s when Health Information Publications produced award-winning patient education booklets distributed throughout the United States (for TIME Inc.) and United Kingdom on a wide variety of health conditions and their treatments. We have moved from print to electronic communications, and our commitment to producing top-quality health information has not changed. Our content formed the basis for Yahoo's own health information portal. HIP has created a 100% original new source of outstanding and trustworthy health content available on the Web. Our editorial board is composed of luminaries in the field of medicine, and our contributors include more than 200 physicians recognized worldwide for their contribution to medicine. A team of 65 award-winning writers and designers has helped to ensure the exceptional presentation of our material. We have sought out some of America's outstanding medical illustrators to prepare the highest quality artwork to support our content. The ehealthMD Library, developed by HIP, has been described variously as "the world's best," "extremely rich content," and "magnificent." It covers the entire spectrum of medical and health-related subjects in depth, in keeping with our mission to provide the most authoritative, trustworthy, and reliable health information source on the Internet. We continually add new topics and keep our information up to date. The information we have developed on this site is meant to enhance and complement the relationship between a patient and his or doctor and not replace it. This website is funded mainly by content licensing agreements and by selected advertising on this site. Our website hosts advertisement banners and sponsored links. Advertisements are marked by the word "Advertisement" or "Sponsored Links." We do not promote or advertise any product within our content. Our content is free of any commercial influence. We do not control the content that appears in any advertisement on our site. We make every effort to assess the honesty of any content in an advertisement on our site.