MedlinePlus: Linking to MedlinePlus

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Add MedlinePlus to Your Web Site

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, 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:

Do not place any MedlinePlus pages in a frame.
Indicate that the page is from MedlinePlus or the National Library of Medicine.
The medical encyclopedia, drug information, and interactive health tutorials are licensed 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)

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>

: <a href="http://medlineplus.gov/"><IMG SRC="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/images/medplus1.gif" alt="For the Public: MedlinePlus Health Information. También en español" width="200" height="90"></a>

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>