Medline Plus April 24, 2008
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As more information is published online, it gets more difficult for the readers to decide which piece of information is right. This is also true for a sensitive area such as medicine. There are countless websites that claim to known the answers for many health related questions, but where can one find information he can trust?
The answer is Medline Plus!
MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from the National Library of Medicine, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to medical journal articles. Health professionals and consumers alike can depend on it for information that is authoritative and up to date.
MedlinePlus has:
- extensive information on drugs
- an illustrated medical encyclopedia
- interactive patient tutorials
- the latest health news
- lists of hospitals and physicians
- a medical encyclopedia
- a medical dictionary
- extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs
- and links to thousands of clinical trials.
MedlinePlus is updated daily and can be bookmarked at the URL:medlineplus.gov.
– Andras