For Immediate Release
Contact:
Courtney Hylton
chylton@ivanhoe.com
(407) 691-1504
Lluminari.com Selects Ivanhoe's Health News Feed to Enhance its Online Health Presence
ORLANDO, FL (June 16, 2003) -- Ivanhoe Broadcast News, the country's largest news-gathering organization covering medical information for television stations, has been selected by Lluminari.com, a well-known Web site that focuses on women's health and provides people greater access to information on health and wellness, to supply medical and health news across its information network.
Ivanhoe will distribute its daily health news to Lluminari.com, in both text and streaming video formats, plus provide access to Ivanhoe's deep archive of 6,000+ medical reports. This will help enhance Lluminari.com's health initiatives to its online visitors.
Marjorie Bekaert Thomas, President of Ivanhoe Broadcast News, says, "We are very pleased to be selected by a well-known health Web site like Lluminari.com to supply medical news. This agreement will allow us to expand our Web presence through Lluminari.com's network of highly regarded physicians and experts as well as online visitors." Ivanhoe.com has earned recognition from U.S. News & World Report, America Online, Prodigy, as well as many national health associations. It is also one of four sites recognized for journalism excellence in 2002 by the Online News Association and Columbia University, was a finalist in Time Inc Health's 2001 International Health & Medical Media Awards, and was chosen the 2002-2003 Golden Web Award.
From its beginning in 1982, Ivanhoe has earned its reputation for providing television stations with creative, top-quality and thought-provoking news stories that offer viewers the latest breakthroughs in medicine, tips on staying healthy, and advice for women from women. In January 1996, Ivanhoe launched Ivanhoe.com, a top on-line medical health information site and Ivanhoe Newswire, its daily health news feed.
About Ivanhoe Broadcast News
With a client base of 200 network affiliates across the United States, Ivanhoe's medical reports are broadcast by television stations reaching 80 million households five times a week. Ivanhoe.com was launched as a logical extension of Ivanhoe's television series, Medical Breakthroughs. It features daily news on the latest advances in medicine and over 6,000 archived reports for the benefit of those searching for treatments by leading specialists from around the country. Receive a Medical Alert e-mail every time we report medical developments on your topic of interest, go to Ivanhoe.com and click on Medical Alerts in the top banner.