iMedix Wins Best Start-up of 2007 Award

NEW YORK, NY, Jan 22 (MARKET WIRE) --
iMedix (http://www.imedix.com/), the first community-powered health search
engine, today announced it received the prestigious best new start-up of 2007
award at the 'Crunchies' worldwide competition in San Francisco. iMedix was
recognized as one of the most compelling start-ups and technology innovations
of the year. A total of 82,000 nominations of start-ups were submitted to
the Crunchies -- a collaboration project between GigaOm
(http://www.gigaom.com/), Read / WriteWeb (http://www.readwriteweb.com/),
VentureBeat(http://www.venturebeat.com/) and TechCrunch
(http://www.techcrunch.com/).

By winning the award, iMedix was selected against some of the most promising
start-ups in the world including Hulu, the popular video sharing site jointly
launched by NBC and Fox and the Internet Television venture Joost.

"We are very fortunate to be recognized among these great companies. Since
our
official launch in December 2007, we've seen an extremely positive response to
the
way we help people address their health concerns through better search and
community. The fact that the best start-up of 2007 is a healthcare website
demonstrates the growing importance of healthcare on the Internet," said Amir
Leitersdorf, CEO and co-founder of iMedix.

iMedix allows consumers to benefit from the online research conducted by
thousands of others with similar health conditions or interests. Through the
site's integrated community platform, users enhance that information through
real-time patient-to-patient interaction. By combining advanced search
capabilities with community features, iMedix empowers people to find and share
health information in order to make better health-related decisions. Individuals
can
sign-up for free by visiting iMedix at http://www.imedix.com.

To subscribe to a RSS feed of iMedix press releases, please go to
http://www.lewiswire.com/us/index.php?client=255 and click on 'Subscribe
to RSS.'

About iMedix, Inc.

Founded in January 2007, iMedix is a community-powered health search
enginethat allows people to easily find and share health information in order to
make better health-related decisions.

The company's innovative approach is a unique combination of a medical
search
engine with a collaborative community platform. Patients can immediately chat
with others that suffer from similar conditions and benefit from reading
medical Web articles that were ranked by the community.

For more information, visit iMedix at http://www.imedix.com.

Contacts:
Noah Dye / Cari Goodrich
LEWIS PR for iMedix
408-573-3662
Email Contact

Copyright 2008, Market Wire, All rights reserved.

-0-