Welcome to MerckSource. We want you to feel at home. Even more important, we want you to benefit from our valuable health resources and keep coming back so that you can better manage your health.

Merck & Co., Inc. provides MerckSource.com as a service to the community as part of its century-long commitment to providing unbiased health information to consumers and health care professionals, which began with the publication of the first Merck Manual in 1899.

MerckSource offers a wide variety of core health tools and resources, available to you 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. We've designed this website with your health and medical needs in mind. Best of all, it's free and it has absolutely no advertising. No distractions. Just credible, unbiased health and medical information at your fingertips.

Health resources available at MerckSource.com include:

• Health Centers with information tailored for men, women, children and caregivers.
• Advice from Dr. Marie Savard, a patient advocate, to help better manage your health.
• Information resources, such as suggested questions to ask your doctor, quick access to support groups, and symptom checkers.
• Virtual Body Tour and 3D Medical Animations, which provide an up-close look at over 140 body systems, processes and health conditions.
• Easy-to-use Health Tools, including health trackers, disease risk assessments, and "calculators" for weight, BMI and other important health information.
• Free newsletters emailed directly to you about your condition of interest.

Plus, MerckSource gives you the power to customize your experience through tailored news selections on topics that are important to you and your family. Get the ABCs on hundreds of conditions, scan breaking medical news, and prepare for a visit to your healthcare provider.

Merck & Co., Inc. is a leading research-driven pharmaceutical products and services company and publisher of The Merck Manual, the most widely read medical text in the world, as well as The Merck Manual - Home Edition, developed especially for consumers. Merck has partnered with other providers of consumer health and medical information to provide this Internet resource, MerckSource, just for you.

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