Description
MedlinePlus is the National Institutes of Health's Web site for patients and their families and friends. Produced by the National Library of Medicine, the world’s largest medical library, 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.
Resources
| Name | Format | Description | Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| Search and Browse MedlinePlus | HTML | Open resource | |
| MedlinePlus Genetics Data Files & API | HTML | MedlinePlus Genetics provides programmatic retrieval of selected data via API. | Open resource |
| API/Web Service | HTML | MedlinePlus offers a search-based Web service that provides access to MedlinePlus health topic data in XML format. Using the Web service, software developers can build applications that utilize MedlinePlus health topic information. The service accepts keyword searches as requests and returns relevant health topics in ranked order. Keyword searches may be limited to specific fields. The service also returns health topic summaries, search result snippets, external links, and other associated data. | Open resource |
| MedlinePlus Connect API | HTML | MedlinePlus Connect helps patients and health care providers access consumer health information at the point of need in a health IT system. Patient portals, patient health record (PHR) systems, and electronic health record (EHR) systems can use MedlinePlus Connect to provide health information for patients, families, and healthcare providers using standard clinical vocabularies for diagnoses (problem codes), medications, and lab tests. | Open resource |
| Medlineplus en Español | HTML | MedlinePlus es un servicio informativo para pacientes, familiares y amigos. | Open resource |
| MedlinePlus XML Files | HTML | MedlinePlus produces XML data sets that you are welcome to download and use. | Open resource |