Philadelphia, PA (April 19, 2010) –The National Foundation of Infectious Disease (NFID) and Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) are pleased to announce the formation of a new publishing partnership. The NFID is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization founded in 1973 dedicated to educating the public and healthcare professionals about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. LWW, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, is a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals, and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health, and pharmacy.
Under the new agreement, LWW will publish NFID’s quarterly newsletter, The Double Helix, as part of the online version of Infectious Disease in Clinical Practice®. LWW will also publish on behalf of the NFID Clinical Updates in Infectious Diseases, NFID’s continuing medical education monograph series, in both the print journal and online.
Partnership Dedicated to Progress in Infectious Disease
“We are pleased to establish this very important partnership with Lippincott Williams & Wilkins,” said NFID Executive Director Len Novick. “It will provide us with an opportunity to extend our content reach internationally and offer the highest-quality print and online publication services to meet the information needs of healthcare professionals, thus helping them meet their goal of providing the best clinical care in the treatment and prevention of infectious diseases.”
Beginning in April 2010, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice® will become affiliated with NFID. Subscribers of IDCP receive each bimonthly issue, as well as online access to the full contents of each issue plus online only pages at the journal website, www.infectdis.com.
Under the editorial leadership of Thomas M. File, Jr., MD, MSc, MACP, FIDSA, FCCP, Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice® is geared toward providing clinicians with clinically oriented information that will affect their daily practice. Each bimonthly issue offers original research, reviews, editorials and case reports covering timely clinical topics. Other features include “Images in ID-What’s the Diagnosis?” and Clinical Guidelines.
“By partnering with NFID, IDCP will gain more recognition as one of the leading journals in the field. We are excited by the opportunities that our partnership will open up to publish and distribute must-have information,” said Kim Jansen, Senior Publisher, Medical Journals, for Wolters Kluwer Health.
About the National Foundation for Infectious Diseases
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases (NFID) (www.nfid.org) is a non-profit, tax-exempt (501c3) organization founded in 1973 and dedicated to educating the public and healthcare professionals about the causes, treatment and prevention of infectious diseases. NFID carries out its mission by educating the public, educating healthcare professionals, supporting research and training in infectious diseases, building coalitions, honoring scientific and public health achievement, legislative contributions, and philanthropy in infectious diseases.
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW) is a leading international publisher for healthcare professionals and students with nearly 300 periodicals and 1,500 books in more than 100 disciplines publishing under the LWW brand, as well as content-based sites and online corporate and customer services.
LWW is part of Wolters Kluwer Health, a leading provider of information and business intelligence for students, professionals and institutions in medicine, nursing, allied health and pharmacy. Major brands include traditional publishers of medical and drug reference tools and textbooks, such as Lippincott Williams & Wilkins and Facts & Comparisons®; and electronic information providers, such as Ovid®, UpToDate®, Medi-Span® and ProVation® Medical.
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