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

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MedlinePlus will direct you to information to help answer health questions. MedlinePlus brings together, by health topic, authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), other government, non-profit and other health-related organizations. Preformulated MEDLINE searches are included in MedlinePlus and give easy access to the medical research literature. It also provides you with a database of full-text drug information and an illustrated medical encyclopedia.

Linking to MedlinePlus pages:

You are welcome to link to MedlinePlus (http://medlineplus.gov) and to its over 650 health topic pages. When creating a link to MedlinePlus or pages on it, please observe the following:

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.

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To point users to MedlinePlus and open the results in a new window, the code is:
<a href="http://medlineplus.gov/" target="medlinepluswindow">MedlinePlus&#174;</a>

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We welcome you to place the MedlinePlus search box on your Web site as long as you:
To put the MedlinePlus search box on your own page and open the results in the same window, the code is:
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>
To put the MedlinePlus search box on your own page and open the results in a new window, the code is:
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>