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Tutorial 2—It's Your Health

MEDLINEplus, a service of the National Library of Medicine

MEDLINEplus [http://medlineplus.gov/] is one of the quality-filtered websites featured on the HealthInfoIowa general resources page. MEDLINEplus is easy to use and packed with reliable consumer health information.

Try the heart attack search in MEDLINEplus:

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MEDLINEplus will search its files and report what it finds on an Advanced Search page. Scroll down the page to look at your options:

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Explore the resources available from the Heart Attack page. All of them should provide reliable information in language that makes sense.

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Now return to the MEDLINEplus home page [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus]. You'll see that it contains a number of useful features:

  • Health topics
    Information on conditions, diseases and wellness (Your heart attack search took place in Health topics) and a medical encyclopedia [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/encyclopedia.html]
  • Drug information
    Generic and brand name drugs
  • Dictionaries
    Spellings and definitions of medical terms
  • Directories
    Locations and credentials of doctors, dentists and hospitals
  • Other resources
    Access to organizations, consumer health libraries, international sites, publications, MEDLINE and more
  • Current health news

Interactive health tutorials [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tutorials.html] that explain procedures and conditions in easy-to-read language are available at MEDLINEplus . These tutorials require Flash (version 4), a special type of browser software called a plug-in. If your computer does not have this software installed, you will be prompted to obtain a free download of Flash before you start the tutorial.

For closer look at these features, take the MEDLINEplus Tour [http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/tour/tour.html].


lets practice icon Let's practice searching MEDLINEplus.

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