News
Executives fly the koop.com
Fred Charatan
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
Two top executives of the health website www.drkoop.com have resigned as the company's financial health has continued to decline. The share price, which was once $35 (£23), sank to about $1 earlier this month.
The chief operating officer, Dennis Upah, and the chief financial officer, Susan Georgen-Saad, both resigned but will remain as consultants until successors are named. Two members of the board of directors of the company have also resigned.
Last week, however, Millen-niumHealth Communications, an internet health news company, said that it had offered to merge with the ailing company, and the share price recovered slightly.
The former US surgeon general, C Everett Koop, founded the website in June 1999 to provide healthcare information and to promote commercial deals offered by manufacturers (BMJ 1999;318:1644). The rise in the stock price at the initial public offering made Dr Koop an instant millionaire.
The website came under fire, however, for mixing
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
StumbleUpon 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Articles
- American Medical Association launches new internet "supersite"
- Fred Charatan
BMJ 1999 319: 1217.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- DrKoop.com criticised for mixing information with advertising
- Fred Charatan
BMJ 1999 319: 727.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
This Article
- Full text
- Respond to this article
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when responses are posted
- Alert me when a correction is posted
Services
- Email this article to a friend
- Find similar articles in BMJ
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Related Content
Bookmark with
What's new
Latest blogs
Find BMJ on:
Services
Tools
Online poll
Resources
Rapid responses for this article
There are no rapid responses for this article. Print issues
