From: "Oliver Obst" <obsto@uni-muenster.de>
Message-Id: <9605101414.AB20339@mail.uni-muenster.de>
To: medibib-l
Date: Fri, 10 May 1996 16:17:43 +0100
Subject: Apotheke online
Zur Info, O.Obst
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From: "James O'Donnell" <jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu>
Subject: APOTHEKE Online
Date: Wed, 8 May 1996 23:42:18 -0400 (EDT)
Apotheke Online
http://ipa.seiten.de/apotheke-online/Grusswort.html
The Internet has now even reached Pharmacy. With APOTHEKE Online you have
the first German-language health magazine on the Internet before you.
This medium will contribute to helping people of today understand subjects
have to to do with health using the many possibilities of the Internet. For
example, a current topic is "self-medicating" -- most people need advice
when it has to do with medical subjects, and the Lawgiver says "For risks
and side- effects, ask your doctor or pharmacist!"
Since the Internet was and is so far mainly for Universities, there are
scientific sources of information here along with the newest research
results direct and online. But the language of science is often difficult
for "normal" people. Here's where APOTHEKE online can help and be an
intermediary, making new and difficult topics understandable. Research and
the pharmaceutical industry haben in the past decades made remarkable
progress. Druggists today have tens of thousands of specifics for medical
use. The array is often confusing for patients in many ways, often hard to
grasp, and changes constantly. APOTHEKE online wants to help make it
clearer what the pharmaceutical industry can do.
Since we are entering strange new territory with this magazine, we are
grateful for every comment, criticism, and suggestion of every kind.
Your druggist, Harro Kunz
Copyright i.p.a. Verlag GmbH 1996
(Contents: full text of general interest articles on personal health care:
using a compartmented pillbox to manage doses of regular medication, for
example, or a general article on arthritis.)