NEWS!
(COMTEX) B: THE HEALTH CHANNEL(TM) STRIKES GOLD
B: THE HEALTH CHANNEL(TM) STRIKES GOLD
SAN FRANCISCO, April 1 /PRNewswire/ -- THE HEALTH CHANNEL opens with a
splash today as BIOLOGIX (OTC Bulletin Board: BGIX) producers set a new
standard for Internet healthcare portals.
Following a successful pilot test throughout the latter half of 1998,
THE HEALTH CHANNEL has returned to the worldwide web with a dramatic
array of new product and service offerings.
Sporting a new and improved look, as well as flexing the muscle of
strategic partnerships with several of the industry's leading new media
players, THE HEALTH CHANNEL has now established a foothold on its claim
to be the Internet's most comprehensive, entertaining and innovative
healthcare supersite. THC's main portal, thehealthchannel.com,
currently indexes over 2.8 million other Internet health and
health-related sites, has direct links with in excess of 1700 on-line
healthcare information service centers, provides detailed coverage of
nearly 700 medical conditions, and is itself nearly 250,000 web pages
in size; establishing THC Version 1999 as the largest and most
comprehensive amongst all healthcare information, product and service
competitors on the web today.
Company Chairman and CEO, Michael Grandon, states that: "We are in the
midst of a revolution in the world of healthcare. This is all about
choice, convenience and confidence. We hope to help put the power over
health and well-being back into the hands of individual consumers and
their trusted advisors."
Not only does thehealthchannel.com empower the visitor to find out
nearly everything imaginable about healthcare, but the site is also fun
to use. Consumer tests have already shown particular fascination with
the "Program Guide(TM)," as a single-point-of-access to health-related
radio and television personalities, and with "Virtucare(TM)," the
channel's doorway to the emerging world of health and virtual reality.
The announcement also comes as The HEALTH CHANNEL and BIOLOGIX are
finalizing their merger in order to enter the increasingly hot IPO
market for Internet content providers. Santa Clara-based Healtheon
Corporation (healtheon.com) completed a $40 Million IPO in February,
and trades at $28 per share. Seattle-based OnHealth (onhealth.com)
currently trades at about $12 per share.
Further announcements are expected about the merger and upcoming new
product features. More information can also be obtained on the
worldwide web at: thehealthchannel.com and biologix.net.
SOURCE BIOLOGIX International, Ltd.
-0- 04/01/99 /CONTACT: Michael Grandon of
BIOLOGIX International, Ltd., 415-388-1551/
/Web site: thehealthchannel.com /Web site:
biologix.net
(BGIX)
CO: BIOLOGIX International, Ltd.; THE HEALTH CHANNEL ST: California
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