Electronic system for a social -network web portal applied to the sector of health and health information

A system for retrieving health-related information, the system comprising:

• at least one processor coupled to a memory;
• a back end subsystem for storing in said memory, illness data and other health-related information imported from external data-base sources;
• an information retrieval program stored in the memory and executable by the processor, the information retrieval program operable to:
• search in the external data-base sources, illness and health-related information terms and definitions;
• organize the illness and health-related information in an internal data-base stored in said memory, by categories according to illness names and including an aggregation of synonyms of scientific and unofficial terms identifying the illness names in one or more different languages;
• for each category, search for health and health information articles in at least one predetermined international scientific data-base;
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• populate said internal data-base with information related to the articles;
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• a front-end subsystem comprising:
• a search engine, executable by the at least one processor, for searching in said internal data-base for illness names;
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• an illness page module, executable by the at least one processor to display for any retrieved illness name, one or more illness pages including the illness data, other health-related information, and the information related to the articles.