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MedlinePlus : trusted health information for you

Summary: Presents up-to-date health care information, selected by the U.S. National Library of Medicine, for use by health care consumers and health professionals. Hundreds of health topics are listed alphabetically and are also grouped into 32 groups. PubMed database searches, with the search queries already formulated, can be initiated from any of the health topics in order to search for more information. Web links are also provided to dictionaries, sites about doctors and dentists, hospitals, organizations, clearinghouses, databases, consumer health publications (some written in Spanish), and libraries. Website was launched by NLM on October 22, 1998.

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  • Physical Description: remote
    1 online resource
  • Publisher: Bethesda, Md. : U.S. National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, Dept. of Health and Human Services, 1998-

Content descriptions

Additional Physical Form available Note:
Issued also as a CD-ROM.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet from the NLM web site. Address as of 8/7/03: http://medlineplus.gov/; current access is available via PURL.
Language Note:
In English, with a link to the Spanish version.
Linking Entry Complexity Note:
Includes materials previously presented in: HealthReach: health information in many languages.
Source of Description Note:
Contents viewed Oct. 8, 2021; title from home page.
Subject:
Health Computer network resources Directories
Medicine Computer network resources Directories
Medical care Popular works
Medicine, Popular
Genre:
Databases.
Related Item: HealthReach

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