Health Boards
HealthBoards is a long-running support group website consisting of over 150 Internet message boards for peer to peer health support (also referred to as a virtual community or online health community). The site is unique in that it is purely a health community site, unlike other established health communities on the Web which have generally been part of large web portals (WebMD, Yahoo, iVillage, etc.). As of June 2006 the site received over 2.3 million messages posted by over 250,000 registered members. In 2004 HealthBoards established a partnership with WebMD to provide additional health content and advertising support for HealthBoards. HealthBoards is currently ranked in the top 20,000 websites worldwide in terms of traffic by Alexa.
Famous quotes containing the words health and/or boards:
“O how can it be that the ground itself does not sicken?
How can you be alive you growths of spring?
How can you furnish health you blood of herbs, roots, orchards, grain?
Are they not continually putting distemper’d corpses within you?
Is not every continent work’d over and over with sour dead?”
—Walt Whitman (1819–1892)
“Strange that so few ever come to the woods to see how the pine lives and grows and spires, lifting its evergreen arms to the light,—to see its perfect success; but most are content to behold it in the shape of many broad boards brought to market, and deem that its true success! But the pine is no more lumber than man is, and to be made into boards and houses is no more its true and highest use than the truest use of a man is to be cut down and made into manure.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)