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OphthoLinx.com

The primary appeal of OphthoLinx.com is that it provides a broad spectrum of ophthalmology-related articles from a wide range of professional journals, eyecare periodicals and news services. The OphthoLinx.com Web site offers regularly updated articles covering 18 separate categories, enabling you to chose those areas of general ophthalmology and related subspecialties that hold the most interest for you.

While numerous new articles are added to the Web site each day, you don't have to visit the site to obtain them. OphthoLinx offers free, twice-a-week, e-mailed newsletters for each of the 18 categories it covers.

Each of the newsletters contains a rich and varied selection of recent articles pertaining to the core category. Thus, if you subscribe to the "Glaucoma" newsletter, you'll be able to choose from up to 20 articles a week related to glaucoma research and treatments. And if you subscribe to the "Economics of Medicine" newsletter, you'll have access to numerous interesting articles relating to the financial issues that surround health care and the healthcare professions.

The OphthoLinx Web site also features what it calls "resource directories," which provide useful information about topics of interest to physicians. For example, you can log on to the HIPAA directory and obtain the most recent information on HIPAA regulations and compliance deadlines.

For those of you who are looking for a simple way to keep up with the latest developments in ophthalmology and health care , OphthoLinx.com can be a valuable source of information.

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If you've discovered a Web site or service that's been useful to you in practice or at home, we'd like to know about it. E-mail Jerry Helzner at helznergi@boucher1.com or call him at (215) 643-8013.