Now rumors have it that while the upper management is desperately seeking to merge with another player in this space to help stop their cash hemorrhaging (Healthline, HealthCentral and Waterfront are all leading candidates), they'll have to push out another set of layoffs on the quickly-shrinking company. My contacts suggest the next set of layoffs will occur by month's end and be in the 35 - 45 person range, bringing the company down to a 140-person business (from its high of 250+).

The save-the-company-through-acquisition plan is believable. Revolution Health's latest strategy has been to pursue traffic for traffic's sake — like last month's deal with social network Daily Strength. The company, we're told, earns most of its revenues from CarePages, a previous acquisition. Combining with other health sites to increase advertising inventory essentially turns Revolution Health into a vertical ad network. Because of the pace at which ad dollars are moving online, it's a very popular move for failing companies these days. But it's not the consumer revolution in healthcare Case promised.

Here's HealthCentral.com and its other sites.
And now, versus WebMD.
Looks pretty bad for HealthCentral, but it's early yet. The site only changed its name to HealthCentral in 2006.