HealingWell.com Relaunches Web Site, Chronic Illness Community Thrives Online Following Rapid Growth

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Source: HealingWell.com

April 25, 2001 -- HealingWell.com (www.healingwell.com), a community and resource web site for patients, family and caregivers coping with diseases, disorders, and chronic illness, announced today the relaunch of their web site and record traffic and membership growth. The new web site includes universal navigation features and tightly integrated content and services, including the addition of hundreds of new articles, breaking medical news, a monthly newsletter, improved community and search services, and free email and free homepages.

Monthly traffic has risen 100 percent over the past year to half a million page views and 150,000 unique visitors each month. The site's optional registered membership has soared to 10,000. HealingWell.com is ranked as the 51st most popular health-oriented web site on the Internet according to 100hot.com, a service of InfoSpace that tracks the web's most popular Internet destinations by sampling the web-surfing patterns of more than 100,000 surfers worldwide.

"Our site's popularity, largely due to word of mouth, shows that patient's look for sites that meet their immediate needs, including helping them find understanding and emotional support, as well reliable health information," said Peter Waite, founder and editor of HealingWell.com.

In addition to original content, nearly half of all articles at HealingWell.com are contributed by reputable health organizations and related web sites across the Internet. This helps keep costs down, generates exposure for contributing web sites and saves valuable time for visitors. "A lot of people visit HealingWell.com just to sample some of the best content that other health web sites have to offer," said founder, Peter Waite.

About HealingWell.com
HealingWell.com is a thriving community and information resource web site for patients, caregivers, and family coping with diseases, disorders and chronic illness. The goal is simple .... to help people on their way to "healing well". HealingWell.com offers health resources and interactive tools that enable patient's to take control of their illness and start the healing process, including medical news, feature articles, message boards and chat rooms, free email, free web pages (yoursite.healingwell.com), newsletters, books, and directories of related information and support resources. HealingWell.com has been featured or profiled by several major media publications, including BBC Online, USAToday.com, MSNBC, the New York Times, and the Associated Press.