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TauMed.Com Introduces Health Related Social Networking Capabilities

Posted on: Tuesday, 3 April 2007, 09:00 CDT

TauMed.com (www.TauMed.com), a free virtual health community presently in beta, today unveiled an expanded set of personalization and real time community tools with an exciting slate of new features. My Health Space and My Health Share provide strong resources founded in an online community, combined with the power of TauMed's superior, advanced healthcare topic search.

"The social networking features announced today are unique to TauMed.com and address the needs of consumers who want to be more proactive in managing their own health issues to create a personalized experience and interact with one another in a virtual health community," said Tauseef Bashir, CEO of TauMed. "When searching for information on health and wellness, consumers need sources they can trust, with high quality content and the support of a social network. TauMed delivers all these benefits."

My Health Space allows members to create and maintain personalized and secure home pages where they can manage their account details, newsletter subscriptions, community profiles, and Health Shares. Members can build a personal research library, create a directory of doctors, and form friends circles and online community support groups. They can also subscribe to a variety of health channels of choice, add external links of interest, and share information with others.

My Health Share is a safe place where members can start online communities to share their insights, personal experiences and views about any health-related topic. From the dangers of cooking with plastic, to breastfeeding techniques and fitness plans, to tips on how to prevent skin damage, the subjects are as varied as the people who comprise TauMed's diverse community. Since everyone's voice can be heard, TauMed is helping to democratize health care information and interaction.

By leveraging a combined knowledge base of professional and user-generated content, TauMed helps consumers become fully informed before visiting their healthcare provider. The site is arranged topically, so visitors can intuitively access well researched, in-depth information on a wide variety of health categories from specific diseases and conditions to health topics such as wellness, fitness and healthy living, pregnancy, men's health, travel medicine, sexual health and dental care. TauMed's powerful search engine also provides relevant results that cover both traditional and complementary alternative medicine, thus equipping consumers with the information they need to feel mentally prepared, emotionally supported, and physically able to tackle the joys and challenges of life.

ABOUT TAUMED

TauMed combines an interactive online health community with a powerful, contextual search engine in order to provide the most relevant and personalized consumer health information available on the Web. Instead of shuffling through countless web pages of irrelevant information, TauMed has created a user-experience whereby consumers can quickly locate the health information they are seeking, and reap the benefits of a social network.

Source: Business Wire

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