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Innovative Education and Information for Guiding Treatment Decisions
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When patients, caregivers and providers face critical treatment choices, NexCura delivers the timely, targeted, evidence-based and personally relevant knowledge they need. Using patented technology the NexProfiler™ treatment option tools generate individualized treatment options information based on peer-reviewed clinical research. With tools for 29 specific conditions, including 80 percent of all cancers as well as cardiovascular and pulmonary conditions, the tools are used by more than 150,000 patients and caregivers every year. As a trusted source of reliable, up-to-date treatment information, the tools are offered for free through the Web sites of national advocacy groups, healthcare organizations and healthcare portals.
NexCura supplements the information in the NexProfiler treatment option tools with timely, relevant news on behalf of pharmaceutical and medical device companies. This can include information about new drugs, or new indications, updated research and leading-edge clinical trials. This additional information is sent only to those who give their consent -- and for whom the information is clinically appropriate.
NexCura is part of Thomson Scientific & Healthcare, a market group of The Thomson Corporation. Thomson Scientific & Healthcare solutions provide efficient access to information needed to stay at the forefront of the fields of research, healthcare, and medicine.
The Thomson Corporation (www.thomson.com) is a leading global provider of integrated information-based solutions to business and professional customers. With 2006 revenues of $6.6 billion, Thomson provides value-added information, software tools and applications that help its customers make better decisions, faster. Thomson serves more than 20 million information users in the fields of law, tax, accounting, higher education, reference information, corporate e-learning and assessment, financial services, scientific research and healthcare. The Corporation's common shares are listed on the New York and Toronto stock exchanges (NYSE: TOC; TSX: TOC).
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