For seventeen years before joining Medscape he served as editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association.

[citation needed] In September 1999, Medscape, Inc. went public and began trading on NASDAQ under the symbol MSCP.

[citation needed] In 2009, WebMD released an iOS application of Medscape,[6] followed by an Android version two years later.

[9] In 2016 a survey of doctors found WebMD and its sister company Medscape to have incomplete medical information lacking depth and also numerous cases of misinformation on their sites.

[11][12] In response, Medscape said the content was fully compliant with medical education industry accreditation standards, but said it would not accept funding from any tobacco industry-affiliated organization in the future.