Founded in New York's Silicon Alley in May 1995 by SCP Communications, Inc. under the direction of Peter Frishauf, Medscape, Inc. had an IPO in September 1999, trading on NASDAQ under the symbol MSCP (an acknowledgment of its founding company, SCP and of Netscape, whose symbol was NSCP).
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MedicaLogic filed for bankruptcy within 18 months and sold Medscape to WebMD in December 2001.
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