Health Website Showcases New Treatment Evaluation and Comparison Feature

PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 13, 2009 -
Health website offers new way to compare alternative and complementary medicine to conventional therapies.

RateADrug.com presents an unbiased and systematic way for users to evaluate their own experiences with medications and to compare them with crowd-sourced input from other users.  The long-term goal will be to provide a comprehensive source of unbiased, user-based treatment data for all types of medications that will complement existing sources of health information.
 
RateADrug features treatment evaluation and statistical comparison tools for over 9000 medications. Consumers are now able to assess the safety and effectiveness of herbs, vitamins and minerals, traditional Ayurvedic, Chinese and homeopathic medicines, in addition to prescription drugs.

“RateADrug users directly compare real-world safety and effectiveness data of both prescription and alternative therapies to discover which treatment might be best for their specific condition. RateADrug's new therapy evaluations will enable doctors to understand patients' goals and to avoid potentially dangerous interactions.”” says Mark Deuitch, RateADrug.com’s founder. "You can submit evaluations of your current treatments to your doctor to initiate more productive office visits, or to family members who want to stay informed of changes in your health."

"Furthermore," says Deuitch, “It's likely that the Obama healthcare reform plan will include an alternative medicine component given the popularity and economic advantages of preventive and complementary medicine.  Going forward, the need for a more systematic approach to finding out what actually works and what doesn’t will be very important.”

RateADrug offers user evaluations and ratings for popular alternative medications including Calcium, Vitamin B, Zicam, Echinacea, Melatonin, Ginkgo, Dong Quai, Milk Thistle, Ginseng, St. John’s Wort, Goldenseal, Turmeric,  and over 1000 other popular herbs and supplements, in addition to RX drugs.   A full list of alternative therapy reports is available at http://www.rateadrug.com/Supplements.aspx. Users can also browse reports by condition from the homepage: http://www.rateadrug.com.


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