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(THCLE) thehealthchannel.com Announces Its Premier Partnership With Earthlink NEWPORT BEACH, Calif., Dec 14, 1999 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- thehealthchannel.com Will Create a Co-Branded Site With EarthLink That Will Provide Daily Health Content to Members of the Leading National Internet Service Provider thehealthchannel.com (OTCBB: THCLE) (www.thehealthchannel.com) is proud to announce what it expects to be the beginning of a long and mutually rewarding relationship with EarthLink Network, Inc. (Nasdaq: ELNK), one of the world's largest Internet service providers (ISPs). thehealthchannel.com, in close partnership with DVCi Technologies, is scheduled to launch its co-branded section of EarthLink in January. This co-branded site reflects a similar design format to thehealthchannel.com's Dec. 1 redesign. thehealthchannel.com and EarthLink's co-branded site will offer EarthLink's 1.5 million-plus members a daily dose of the latest healthcare news and articles. EarthLink members can choose thehealthchannel.com as their daily healthcare content provider, giving them one-click access to thehealthchannel.com content from their EarthLink Personal Start Page. thehealthchannel.com, in collaboration with DVCi, will continue to roll out added site features, including archives and searches, polls and personalization. "We are very excited to have this relationship activated in conjunction with our new Web design. EarthLink has been great to work with and has allowed us great flexibility with the creative design of the co-branded site we have created specifically for EarthLink members," said Donald Shea, CEO of thehealthchannel.com, Inc. "thehealthchannel.com provides EarthLink members with quick access to a wealth of health-related information and resources," said Howard Lefkowitz, EarthLink's vice president of business development. "As a company that focuses on helping to make the Internet a valuable resource to our members, our partnership with thehealthchannel.com brings another great area of content to EarthLink members." With headquarters at 3101 West Coast Highway, Suite 175, Newport Beach, Calif., thehealthchannel.com, Inc., a Delaware corporation, is a comprehensive health information Internet portal that offers a one-step access point for consumers and professionals who want to explore a broad array of health topics. The portal currently indexes more than 2.8 million other Internet health and health-related sites, has direct links with more than 1,700 online health-care information service centers, provides detailed coverage of some 700 medical conditions, and is nearly 1 million Web pages in size. Consumers may access a global library of health care information while searching for products and services. The site offers a complete Internet portal for state-of-the-art continuing medical education for professionals. It is also linked to more than 3 million URLs through various other strategic alliances, such as Infoseek. Safe Harbor Statement Included in this press release are forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended. Although the company believes that the expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements are reasonable, it can give no assurance that such expectations reflected in such forward-looking statements will prove to have been correct.