Medifocushealth.com is a health information site offering "distinctive, in-depth, physician-reviewed guides" to over 60 chronic and life-threatening medical conditions. By December 2007 40 more conditions will be added. The guides are updated quarterly and reviewed by its advisory board of leading specialists throughout the country.


The guides include information on:

• treatment options and research advances


• links to relevant medical article abstracts from leading journals (supposedly provides abstract for free, but when I clicked on the link I got the "Page Cannot Be Displayed" message)


• contact information for clinical trial sites, and leading researchers and their institutions (Poor navigation, you have to click through each state to get to your state. Email addresses are not active and word wrap poorly. When you click on Centers for Research you only get authors and their institutional affiliation, you DO NOT get a listing of specific centers)


• links to top associations relevant to the condition (So far all I found were links to Complementary and Alternative Medicine associations)


• complementary and alternative medicine resources


• physician-locator information (doesn't give you physician information, it gives you TIPS on finding a physician)


• important questions to ask your doctor

In my opinion the number of topics is few and the website design is awful. I was constantly battling with advertisement expanding and jumping around the page. The line in the middle of the page makes it look like information is falling off the screen. Several times I tried to click on a link to an article and got Circuit City because the ad moved over the article URL. While I like the concept of this site, I am less than impressed.