Marcia Henry's Library Blog

MedlinePlus quality consumer health information

mhenry — Thu, 08 May 2008 20:24:49 +0000

MedlinePlus is a really good resource for quality consumer health information. It just recently added consumer health information in several languages.

The URL for consumer health in foreign language is:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/languages.html

The URL for consumer health in foreign languages by topic is:
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/languages/all_healthtopics.html

and the URL to retrieve primarily quality information in English is: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/

You can also, as a CSUN faculty, staff or student, reach MedlinePlus when using PubMed at http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?otool=cacsunlib

Look for the link to Consumer Health on the left column. In addition, depending upon the topic, you may also find links by viewing the full record and choose Links to Link Out to Medical as in the following example:

Medical

MedlinePlus Health Information

New NLM Drug Information Portal

mhenry — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 23:02:18 +0000

The National Library of Medicine has created the free Drug Information Portal to provide patients, families, and health care professionals with quality information on medication.

Begin by typing a trade or generic name for a medication in the search box, and click “Go.” Your results are links to the following resources provided by the National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health:

Consumer health information from MedLinePlus

Label information (packet inserts) from DailyMed

References from scientific journals from PubMed

Chemical and toxicological information from ToxNet

and more!

NLM’s Drug Information Portal links you directly to the relevant portions of these websites. The NLM Drug Information Portal makes it easier to gather information about medications from multiple sources

Medline databases-PubMed, Medline ISI Web of Knowledge

mhenry — Mon, 10 Mar 2008 19:58:39 +0000

Medline is a database that indexes the medical literature. I encourage accessing Medline on NCBI’s PubMed. CSUN offers a URL to link records with our Find Text

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgiotool=cacsunlib

Handout for reference desk covering “Databases A-Z with Subject categories Fall 2008 update

mhenry — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 23:37:54 +0000