Health Resources
Medline Plus
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
http://medlineplus.gov/
The NLM Gateway is a Web-based NLM system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. NLM Gateway was developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed
Searching the medical databases begins by understanding the relationship between the big inclusive National Library of Medicine's (NLM) database MEDLINE containing all of the citations and the National Library of Medicine's search engine, PubMed, used to search for citations.
PubMed is a free search interface provided by the National Library of Medicine to access the inclusive MEDLINE database. PubMed containscitations and abstracts to scholarly medical articles. Some may get a little frustrated because PubMed does not contain the full-text to all of the articles. However, the abstracts to the articles are very complete and you can often tell a lot about the article from the abstract. The abstract often contains the objective, methodology, results and conclusion. The NLM makes significant effort to provide many medical articles in open access (free) through PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov .
PubMed is a premier medical database; however, it is not an easy database to learn. The database was designed by non-librarians and not by librarians. NLM librarians are becoming a part of the development so it is slowly developing into a more user-friendly medical database with more visible access to essential search features (particularly the interrelationship of the Mesh Database and PubMed).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
NLM Fact Sheets
Below, you will find links to fact sheets that will help you learn more about the National Library of Medicine databases.
MEDLINE
NLM MEDLINE Fact Sheet MEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html
PubMed
NLM PubMed Fact Sheet PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html
MeSH
NLM MeSH Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, it brings you information about diseases, conditions, and wellness issues in language you can understand. MedlinePlus offers reliable, up-to-date health information, anytime, anywhere, for free.
You can use MedlinePlus to learn about the latest treatments, look up information on a drug or supplement, find out the meanings of words, or view medical videos or illustrations. You can also get links to the latest medical research on your topic or find out about clinical trials on a disease or condition.
http://medlineplus.gov/
The NLM Gateway is a Web-based NLM system that lets users search simultaneously in multiple retrieval systems at the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM). It allows users of NLM services to initiate searches from one Web interface, providing "one-stop searching" for many of NLM's information resources or databases. NLM Gateway was developed at the National Library of Medicine (NLM).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
PubMed
Searching the medical databases begins by understanding the relationship between the big inclusive National Library of Medicine's (NLM) database MEDLINE containing all of the citations and the National Library of Medicine's search engine, PubMed, used to search for citations.
PubMed is a free search interface provided by the National Library of Medicine to access the inclusive MEDLINE database. PubMed containscitations and abstracts to scholarly medical articles. Some may get a little frustrated because PubMed does not contain the full-text to all of the articles. However, the abstracts to the articles are very complete and you can often tell a lot about the article from the abstract. The abstract often contains the objective, methodology, results and conclusion. The NLM makes significant effort to provide many medical articles in open access (free) through PubMed Central http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov .
PubMed is a premier medical database; however, it is not an easy database to learn. The database was designed by non-librarians and not by librarians. NLM librarians are becoming a part of the development so it is slowly developing into a more user-friendly medical database with more visible access to essential search features (particularly the interrelationship of the Mesh Database and PubMed).
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/bsd/disted/pubmed.html
NLM Fact Sheets
Below, you will find links to fact sheets that will help you learn more about the National Library of Medicine databases.
MEDLINE
NLM MEDLINE Fact Sheet MEDLINE
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html
PubMed
NLM PubMed Fact Sheet PubMed
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/pubmed.html
MeSH
NLM MeSH Fact Sheet
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/mesh.html