Premier Provider of Cancer Information and Treatment Options, Cancer Treatment Consultants.com, Joins ScreamingMedia Content Network
Information on Cancer Treatment Options Enriches ScreamingMedia’s Health-Care Content Offering
NEW YORK, NY, November 22, 1999 -– ScreamingMedia (www.screamingmedia.com), the leading e-distributor of real-time content for special interest and vertical Web sites, today announced it would deliver the most comprehensive information on cancer treatment options provided by Cancer Treatment Consultants.com (
www.411Cancer.com). Under the agreement, information about new developments in cancer care will be provided to ScreamingMedia’s hundreds of Web site subscribers.
The deal reinforces ScreamingMedia’s foothold as the premier distributor of health-care content to medical websites. ScreamingMedia content network subscribers in the health care channel include Drkoop.com, thehealthchannel.com, InteliHealth and MotherNature.com.
"This is a very exciting deal for us, because it enables us to significantly enrich our health care offering," said Alan Ellman, President and Founder of ScreamingMedia. "We're especially proud of our health-care website subscribers, who are really an Internet Who's Who. We're delighted to be able to provide them with another first-rate source of content."
Charles Weaver, MD, co-founder and CEO of Cancer Treatment Consultants.com, added, "Affiliating with ScreamingMedia is a natural extension of our company’s charter: to collect, interpret, process, organize and disseminate to the broadest possible audience, cancer treatment options that will empower the cancer patient to make educated decisions about his or her own care. ScreamingMedia, with its pervasive reach, creates and alliance that forwards our objective."
About ScreamingMedia
ScreamingMedia (www.screamingmedia.com) is the premier Content Network on the Internet, aggregating relevant, real-time content from a wide array of providers and delivering it to hundreds of clients every day, seamlessly integrating it into the look and feel of their Web sites. Using proprietary "harvesting" and filtering technology, ScreamingMedia streams over half a million articles each month to its website subscribers, including AOL, Microsoft, About.com, and Drkoop.com. These sites use ScreamingMedia to drive traffic and increase the "stickiness" of their sites with updated, customized content from some of the world's leading sources, including The Associated Press, The New York Times Syndicate, Business Wire, Rolling Stone, Red Herring and Salon.com. The company is based in New York City and has over 90 employees. Its Chairman of the Board is Jay Chiat, co-founder of Chiat/Day.