Mother Searches WebMD for Help After House Guest Shoots Her Son
Police in Texas say the mother of a teenage boy who was shot in the leg by a friend turned to WebMD for help instead of driving her son to the hospital.
The Test That Will Make Hypochondriacs Even Crazier
It would be nice to know your chances of getting cancer, diabetes, or heart disease later in life, right? Soon, for around $1,000, you can, with your very own genome test. Sounds like fun!
Steve Case's face-saving merger
The health-website bubble, inflated by purchased search-engine traffic, is deflating. As rumored for weeks, Waterfront Media, an operator of health websites, is buying Revolution Health in a $300 million deal. Waterfront's network reaches 14.7 million visitors a month; Revolution, 11.3 million. WebMD, the largest…
WebMD bulks up as Revolution Health talks sale
Revolution Health, the brainchild of AOL founder Steve Case, is still in talks to sell its health portal to a rival, Everyday Health. The combination would have bested WebMD, the No. 1 health-site operator — until WebMD bought QualityHealth.com today. The Revolution-Everyday deal, meanwhile, could happen within a…
Steve Case's troubled Revolution Health talks merger with rival
At last, an end is in sight for Steve Case's misadventure in the healthcare industry. Revolution Health, his health-information website, is in merger talks with Everyday Health, a better-run, New York-based rival with more Web traffic. The combination would have more traffic than WebMD. Three's a trend, isn't it? If…
Is Steve Case on drugs? No, but that's the problem
Former AOL CEO Steve Case founded Revolution Health on some muddle-headed notion of using the Internet to transform healthcare. That dream has died, and what's left — an online-advertising network serving health-information websites — may not have much of a future, says WebMD veteran Josh Wildstein. Drugmakers'…
WebMD asks: Is it me, Doc, or are everyone's ad sales looking a bit pasty?
WebMD, an operator of health websites, cut the forecast it offered investors for 2008 sales to reflect a "a recent shift toward shorter term buying commitments in certain of its customers' consumer advertising purchases." What we want to know: Is this an ailment plaguing just WebMD, or something catching? A Madison…
Goldman Sachs is now 10 percent less impressed with Internet
Citing a more challenging consumer environment, greater customer-acquisition costs and investor reluctance to pay above-market prices for shares, Goldman Sachs today cut price targets for Internet stocks including Google, eBay, and Amazon by 10 percent. For more reasons why Wall Street is suddenly less impressed…
First Healtheon merged with WebMD. Then it spun off part of WebMD and changed its name to Emdeon. Then it changes its name to HLTH Corp. Now it's merging with WebMD in a cash-and-stock deal worth $2.31 billion. Got all that? The accounting for this must be almost as complicated as your average health-insurance…
HealthCentral takes cash from Barry Diller, Michael Moritz
HealthCentral just announced $50 million in funding. The round included a major investment from IAC and smaller contributions from prior investors Sequoia Capital, Carlyle Group and Polaris Venture Partners. HealthCentral operates several health-related websites, including the long-troubled DrKoop.com, which was once…
