MayoClinic.com Receives Top Honors

Monday, August 02, 2004

MayoClinic.com has been awarded top honors in the Spring 2004 World Wide Web Health Awards contest. The MayoClinic.com site won a gold award in the Health Promotion/Disease & Injury Prevention Web site category and a special award for Best Site Structure & Navigation. A panel of judges evaluated entries for content, creativity and overall quality.

"We are pleased that MayoClinic.com continues to be recognized for outstanding achievement as a consumer health Web site," says Brooks Edwards, M.D., medical editor-in-chief of MayoClinic.com. "The site continues to set the industry standard as a friendly, functional site that empowers people to take an active role in managing their health."

MayoClinic.com empowers people to manage their health by providing useful and up-to-date information and tools that reflect the expertise and standard of excellence of the more than 2,000 physicians and scientists of Mayo Clinic. This site is produced as part of Mayo Clinic's commitment to serve as a dependable source of health information for the public. MayoClinic.com is owned by Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research.

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