Medindia ranks among the top health related websites in the world in terms of traffic, reach, search engine ranking, as well as quality and scope of medical content and news.

Medindia receives over 10 million page views and over 1 million visitors per month (2007). Since being founded over 10 years ago – it has over 23,000 registered members. It has uploaded over 300,000 pages. It provides almost 40 health news items daily. There are over 35,000 news and research items related to health. It has a team of over 50 programmers, designers and content editors.

All the information can be accessed free. Doctors, hospitals, medical conferences and NGO’s are allowed to host free pages on the site. Over 1500 homepages of doctors, hospitals, medical conferences and NGOs have been created. Its electronic medical record is another very popular area that is used by the members. Its health news, disease information, health calculators, simple inter-actives, animations, diet, travel, lifestyle and wellness sections are very popular.

Medindia can be broadly divided into the following sub-sections-

1. Consumers
2. Doctors
3. Medical Education
4. Pharmaceuticals or Business
5. Forum and Blogs
6. Medical Directories
7. Lifestyle and Wellness
8. Travel and Health
9. Health Insurance
10. Complimentary Medicine
11. Medical Website search and Ranking
12. Medical Tourism
13. Diet and Nutrition

Each section is content heavy and is a portal by itself. Medindia also sells medical books, non-prescription drugs and health products through its website.

Medindia has syndicated its health contents to many top brands over the years. Rediff.com entered into an alliance for health contents with medindia a few years back. The health section of Rediff is available on www.rediff.com/health. However currently it has not renewed its contract.

People visit it frequently to do an in-depth study on a health related topic.

Not many people know that medindia also promotes complimentary medicine. This section of medindia has topics related to Yoga, Ayurveda, Homeopathy, Reiki, Siddha,

Some people have said medindia is like an ‘ocean’ because of the levels and depth of some of the contents. The site keeps growing and produces high quality contents.

Google Gadgets and Yahoo Widgets

The latest medindia additions have been the Google Gadgets and Yahoo widgets that it has uploaded of its popular sections like health calculators and health news. The links to these interesting free downloads are as follow:

Google Gadgets–

1. For current Health News and Research – If you are a reporter or a researcher of health topics or if you like keeping tab of the latest advances in the field of medicine – you will find this an interesting utility to download.

http://www.desktop.google.com/plugins/i/medindiahealthnews.html?hl=en

2. For calculating Ideal Body Weight – If you are dieting or a nutrition expert or a dietician or like to keep a tab on your own and your family member’s weight – this utility will be useful

http://www.desktop.google.com/plugins/i/idealweightcalculato.html?hl=en

Yahoo Widgets

1. Ideal Body WeightCalculator

‘Ideal Body Weight’ for adults is a useful tool to check the appropriate weight against the height of a person. Remember the secret of good health is to maintain an ideal weight.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/idealweightcalculator

2. Inspirational Quote for the Day

A widget on ‘Inspirational quotation pops up a quote daily to inspire, motivate and encourage you to look at positive side of life.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/inspirational-quote-for-the-day

3. Medindia Health News

Keep yourself updated with the latest in the field of healthcare through this dynamically powered Widget from medindia’s news and research team. Medindia.com has over 35,000 health news items covering most of the diseases.

Useful utility for a reporter or a researcher of health topics. If you like keeping tab of the latest advances in the field of medicine – you will find this an interesting utility to download.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/medindia-health-news

4. BMI Calculator

If you know your height and weight then calculate your ‘Body Mass Index (or BMI)’ and find out your future health risk for lifestyle diseases.

Useful widget for weight conscious people, dieticians, doctors to keep it tucked somewhere on their desktop.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/bmi-calculator

5. Population Clock

Population clock gives the approximate World and Indian population. Population clock is dynamically updated based on birth and death rate.

http://widgets.yahoo.com/widgets/population-clock