Web Sightings

• The Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association (Chicago) has redesigned its web site, www.bluecares.com, to offer consumers a wider selection of online health care information. Features include a monthly health topic spotlight, a PPO provider finder, BlueCard Worldwide hospital network, children activities, a body atlas, health calculators and online diary, glossary of health care terms, and a career opportunities center.

• Cross Country Staffing (Boca Raton, FL) has launched HospitalHub.com. The site is designed to help nurses, therapists, technicians, advance practitioners fill positions where shortages exist, and to reduce their cost-per-hire during a nursing shortage. The site is a library of the country’s leading hospitals with facility profiles and employment information.

• Sigma-Tau Pharmaceuticals (Gaithersburg, MD) has launched its corporate web site, www.sigmatau.com. The site includes a patients’ corner, physicians’ corner, company overview, and prescription and consumer product information. Another feature is a virtual "Hallway of Voices" which presents unique personalities who provide testimonials about caring for children living with rare chronic illnesses.

• Women First Healthcare (San Diego), a company devoted to improving the health of midlife women, has launched an Internet site, www.womenfirst.com. It offers both midlife women and clinicians a source of credible information about breast health, menopause, nutrition, skin care and other midlife health issues.