Life Sciences Division
Consultant and Consultant360.com pull together practical clinical advice from top experts in many specialties in convenient print and online sources for primary care practitioners.

The journal provides peer-reviewed articles on key topics encountered in clinical practice, as well as short, quick-reading features that emphasize diagnostic quizzes and color photography. Among the most popular features are "Dermclinic," "What's Your Diagnosis?" "Photoclinic," "What's the 'Take Home'?" and "Photo Quiz."

By focusing on the how-to of diagnosing and treating common medical problems, Consultant has become the No. 1 independent clinical journal among office-based primary care physicians, physician assistants, and nurse practitioners, according to syndicated research studies. The print edition's circulation includes more than 250,000 primary care practitioners.

Consultant360.com, the official website of Consultant, features full access to all the content of the print journal plus online exclusive features, including a large searchable photo database, blogs, social media, medical conference coverage, and topic centers on designated therapeutic areas.

Consultant For Pediatricians and PediatricsConsultant360.com provides practical help in solving real-life clinical problems pediatric providers encounter every day. The journal publishes peer-reviewed articles on key topics in pediatric practice. It highlights the latest developments in diagnosis and management, provides updates on controversial and timely topics, and helps answer questions parents often ask. Each issue also contains short case presentations and interactive quizzes that are illustrated with high-quality original clinical color photographs. This unique editorial format is what distinguishes the journal.

Some of Consultant For Pediatricians’ most popular features are “Dermclinic,” “Photoclinic,” “What’s Your Diagnosis?,” “Child Abuse — or Mimic?,” “Top Papers of the Month,” and “Parent Coach.” The journal’s goal is to offer concise, up-to-date information that can be easily put to use in daily practice to its circulation of about 62,000 office- and hospital-based pediatricians, pediatric nurse practitioners, and pediatric physician assistants.

PediatricsConsultant360.com, the official website of Consultant For Pediatricians, promises full access to the print journal online plus online exclusive features, including a large searchable photo database, blogs, social networking, medical conference coverage, and topic centers on designated therapeutic areas.

Annals of Long-Term Care: Clinical Care and Aging (ALTC) and AnnalsOfLongTermCare.com is a peer-reviewed medical journal that addresses the clinical and practical issues that affect the care of long-term care residents. The publication's aim is to disseminate timely information that can readily be put into practice to improve the care of this growing population. ALTC is an official publication of the American Geriatrics Society and has a partnership with the American Association for Long Term Care Nursing. Content consists of evidence-based clinical review articles, case reports, clinical experience reports, ethics articles, perspectives, and other departments prepared by healthcare providers and key opinion leaders serving the long-term care community. Articles in the publication draw from a wide range of specialties, including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, musculoskeletal disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pain management, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, and urology, among others. Founded in 1992, ALTC reaches almost 50,000 medical directors, physicians, nurses, pharmacists, physician assistants, psychiatrists, and other allied health professionals monthly. ALTC is indexed in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and in the Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL). In addition, ALTC is the official city guide of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists (ASCP) Annual Meeting and Exhibition and the ASCP Educational Conference. The city guide is ALTC's award-winning travel brand, helping conference attendees enhance the downtime they spend at the conference locale.

Clinical Geriatrics and ClinicalGeriatrics.com is an official peer-reviewed, clinical review journal of the American Geriatrics Society that focuses on both the clinical and practical issues related to the care and management of the older community-dwelling patient. The journal's readership comprises nearly 50,000 office-based primary care physicians, hospital-based physicians, geriatricians, psychiatrists, and other healthcare providers treating the older patient. Clinical content consists of evidence-based, clinical review articles, case reports, and various departments prepared by experts in the field that cover a wide range of specialties, including cardiology, endocrinology, gastroenterology, infectious diseases, musculoskeletal disease, nephrology, neurology, oncology, pain management, psychiatry, pulmonary medicine, rheumatology, and urology, among others. Many articles review data related to specific clinical differences found in geriatric patients, helping to accurately diagnose and treat this rapidly expanding patient population. Clinical Geriatrics was established in 1993 and is published monthly. The journal is indexed in EMBASE/Excerpta Medica and in the Cumulative Index for Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL).

First Report — Managed Care and FirstReportNow.com is a managed-markets print and online brand that circulates to more than 21,000 health plan CEOs, hospital formulary committee members, HMO pharmacists, health plan medical directors and pharmacy directors, large employer decision-makers, and state prison facility managers. The editorial mission is focused on delivering the most comprehensive late-breaking information that affects managed market providers with topics that include clinical, legislative, and economic developments. First Report — Managed Care also reports on dozens of scientific and managed care conferences throughout the world, providing readers with pertinent news from scientific sessions, symposia, and late-breaking clinical trials. In addition, the First Report — Managed Care award-winning travel brand is the official city guide of both the AMCP annual meeting and educational conference and is the official City Guide of the National Association of Managed Care Physicians (NAMCP) and the official Conference Coverage of the NAMCP Annual Spring and Fall Forums.

Skin & Aging and SkinAndAging.com is an award-winning journal reaching nearly 12,000 dermatologists, NPs and PAs. Targeted newsletters to key portions of the Skin & Aging readership include Derm Nurse, Derm Resident, Derm PA, Derm Practice and Extensions (for physician assistants and nurse practitioners) and Pathways, which offers practical career advice for residents.

Wound Care/Podiatry Division
No medical publishing company is more committed to the wound care market than HMP Communications. Since the mid-1980s, the company has continually identified key physicians, nurses and therapists who specialize in treating wounds in hospitals, wound clinics, long-term care facilities and home-care settings. HMP leads the market, publishing WOUNDS, the most widely read physician journal focusing on wound care and wound research; Ostomy Wound Management (OWM), the only peer-reviewed, multidisciplinary publication dedicated to advanced practice wound care nurses; Today's Wound Clinic, the only journal for key decision-makers in wound clinics; and Podiatry Today, which has been continually recognized for its insightful, how-to clinical features and columns targeting podiatrists.

Cardiovascular Division
HMP Communications was among the first to recognize that catheter-based technology was cost-effectively replacing more invasive surgical procedures. Cath Lab Digest remains the No. 1 publication read by the key administrators, managers, directors, supervisors, nurses and techs in cardiac catheterization labs; the Journal of Invasive Cardiology is read by interventional cardiologists performing catheter procedures and is the official journal of the International Andreas Grüntzig Society; EP Lab Digest, the respected voice of electrophysiology (EP) professionals, is avidly read by electrophysiologists, EP fellows, EP allied professionals and administrators; and Vascular Disease Management, a peer-reviewed journal for the multi-disciplinary vascular team, serves physicians, surgeons, radiologist, nephrologists, endocrinologists and others focused on peripheral interventions.