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Health Central Widgets by Expert and Condtion

21 July 2008 1,507 views Comments

Widgetbox is excited to have teamed up with The HealthCentral Network, Inc – a leading collection on online consumer health assets with more than 35 condition-specific, wellness and general health websites. On each condition-specific site, HealthCentral maintains a group of the top experts in the given condition: doctors, therapists, patient advocates, authors, etc. to help patients, caregivers, friends and family better understand how to live their lives day to day.

Those experts write articles analyzing news stories, informing readers about new treatments and giving tips on living with a given condition day to day. Experts are also active community members, engaging in discussions with readers, answering lifestyle questions and generally supporting site users. HealthCentral has more than 100 experts across its sites.

For those experts, we have teamed up and those Expert Shareposts into Widgetbox blidgets! Now you can find widgets by HealthCentral expert or by health condition. We are excited about this opportunity to help the experts reach new readers through widgets, share their experiences, and learn from experts across the world.

You can find each of the widgets on Widgetbox; additionally, you can find links to the widgets directly on each HealthCentral Shareost page! Here are few examples:

Kenn Kihiu – Diet Exercise

Success coach Kenn Kihiu is a fitness expert and the creator of the Fun Dance Exercise workout DanceX http://www.danceXfitness.com Kenn’s innovative and cutting edge workouts such as DanceX and the “8020 Body” have been featured in numerous newspapers and media outlets around the country. Kenn has a real love for people and is well known for his high energy, sense of humor and passion for health. Kenn teaches fitness classes on a daily basis and also serves the community as an expert who speaks on topics related to fitness, body image and making healthy life choices.

You can find Kenn Kihiu on HealthCentral here.

David Mendosa – Diabetes Expert

David Mendosa is a medical writer who was diagnosed with Type 2 diabetes in 1994. After his diagnosis, David became a vocal advocate for diabetes awareness and education. His articles have appeared in many of the major diabetes magazines and web sites. His own website, David Mendosa’s Diabetes Directory, is one of the first and largest web sites on diabetes and he brings his expertise to MyDiabetesCentral.com.

You can find David Mendosa on HealthCentral here.

And here are some other experts:

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  • The new widget is very useful at least we can get some advice, tips, and information coming from health expert. Another one we can put this widget into our blogs or websites if we want to stay on the updates of our wanted health expert. Like in natural vitamins it has a very informative and very useful health tips that we can use. The widgetbox had made a great job for this type of application.
  • Interesting stuff here, thanks for sharing.
    Best regards
  • Thanks for a great post - this really helped me find some very interesting sites. Lifestyle topics always fascinate me and now I certainly have plenty to read!
  • Neat widget. Good, that you mentioned David Mendosa, my brother is following him, because he is a diabetese.
  • i found great advice and heath tips from widget box. Thanks guys
  • nice post. looks like something i can implement on my diabetes blog
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  • this is really becoming a MUST for any health related blog...
  • Yeah, this is really helpful because i have a health related blog.
  • Must read or must have for health fanatics or health related blogs, I guess.
  • Thats awesome . Now i can get more information on health lifestyle . Thanks for the update !
  • Thats a real nice move from widgetbox. I will also add this widget on my health blog. Thanks for sharing.
  • Don
    Great stuff. will have to have a look at this for my site. might come in handy
  • Thats seems to be really nice widget. I will be quite helpful for visitors of my blog. Hats off for providing this
  • nice article! nice site. you're in my rss feed now ;-)
    keep it up
  • Sounds like a great teamup , congrats.
  • Im glad to see a new widget that at the very least will provide some insight and tips for users that are looking for advice from a health guru.
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