MedlinePlus

MedlinePlus is a website containing health information from the world's largest medical library, the United States National Library of Medicine.

Health professionals and consumers use the website for its up-to-date, authoritative information. MedlinePlus is updated daily.

MedlinePlus provides:

• extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions
• interactive health tutorials
• lists of hospitals and physicians
• a medical encyclopedia (adam.com Health Illustrated Encyclopedia)
• a medical dictionary (Merriam-Webster)
• health information in Spanish
• extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs
• health information from the media
• links to thousands of clinical trials
• links to pre-formulated searches of the MEDLINE/PubMed database for recent research articles on selected health topics

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