About MEDLINEplus

Dr. Donald A.B. Lindberg, Director, National Library of Medicine

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Welcome to MEDLINEplus, a gold mine of up-to-date, quality health care information from the world’s largest medical library, the National Library of Medicine at the National Institutes of Health. MEDLINEplus is for anyone with a medical question. Both health professionals and consumers can depend on it for accurate, current, medical information. This service provides access to extensive information about specific diseases and conditions and also has links to consumer health information from the National Institutes of Health, dictionaries, lists of hospitals and physicians, health information in Spanish and other languages, and clinical trials. There is no advertising on this site, nor does MEDLINEplus endorse any company or product.

Thanks to MEDLINEplus, and the Internet, people from all around the world can research information on nearly any medical topic from the comfort of their home or office. The cancer patient in Florida, the nurse in rural Montana, and the medical librarian in Melbourne, Australia can tap into MEDLINEplus and have access to the same rich store of information as the physician at a prestigious teaching hospital in New York City.

Good information is the best medicine.