MedlinePlus: Linking to MedlinePlus

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The National Library of Medicine invites you to link from your Web site to MedlinePlus at http://medlineplus.gov/.

Text to describe MedlinePlus:

MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, 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. MedlinePlus also has extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news.

Linking to MedlinePlus pages:

You are welcome to link to MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and to its over 700 health topic pages. When creating a link to MedlinePlus or pages on it, please observe the following:

Do not place any MedlinePlus pages in a frame.
Indicate that the page is from MedlinePlus or the National Library of Medicine.
Material on MedlinePlus may be copyrighted. For more information see MedlinePlus Copyright Information.
The medical encyclopedia, drug information, interactive health tutorials, and surgery videos are copyrighted products. You may only link to the MedlinePlus 'homepages' for these products, listed below. Linking to individual content pages is not permitted. Please contact the content provider for licensing information and see our copyright FAQ for more information.

Medical Encyclopedia (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html)
Drug Information (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html)
Interactive Health Tutorials (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorial.html)
Surgery Videos (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/surgeryvideos.html)

Text and graphic links:

The images and text shown below on this page should assist you in coding your html links to us. Choose a plain text or graphic link and paste the block of HTML code under it right into your page.

MedlinePlus®: <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MedlinePlus®</a>

To point users to MedlinePlus and open the results in a new window, the code is:

<a href="http://medlineplus.gov/" target="medlinepluswindow">MedlinePlus®</a>

Search MedlinePlus® to find authoritative consumer health information.: Search<a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MedlinePlus®</a> to find authoritative consumer health information.

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: <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/"><IMG SRC="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/images/mpluslinksm.gif" alt="MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You" width="179" height="35"></a>

: <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/"><IMG SRC="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/images/mpluslinkmed.gif" alt="MedlinePlus Trusted Health Information for You: A service of the National Library of Medicine" width="200" height="110"></a>

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We welcome you to place the MedlinePlus search box on your Web site as long as you:

clearly identify the box as belonging to MedlinePlus
display the search results in their own window, not in a frame
use the exact search code provided below
link the word MedlinePlus or the graphic to the MedlinePlus homepage, http://medlineplus.gov.

Search MedlinePlus:


<form method="get" action="http://search.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/query" title="Site Search input"  target="_self">
Search <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MedlinePlus</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="hidden" name="DISAMBIGUATION" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="FUNCTION" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="SERVER2" value="server2">
<input type="hidden" name="SERVER1" value="server1">
<input type="text" name="PARAMETER" size="20" maxlength="250">
<input type="image" src="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/images/search.gif" align="absmiddle" width="57" height="24" border="0" title="Search" alt="Search">
</form>

Search MedlinePlus:


<form method="get" action="http://search.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/query" title="Site Search input"  target="resultwindow">
Search <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/">MedlinePlus</a>: &nbsp;&nbsp;
<input type="hidden" name="DISAMBIGUATION" value="true">
<input type="hidden" name="FUNCTION" value="search">
<input type="hidden" name="SERVER2" value="server2">
<input type="hidden" name="SERVER1" value="server1">
<input type="text" name="PARAMETER" size="20" maxlength="250">
<input type="image" src="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/images/search.gif" align="absmiddle" width="57" height="24" border="0" title="Search" alt="Search">
</form>

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