Editing MedlinePlus (section)

{{short description|Online information service produced by the US National Library of Medicine}}
'''MedlinePlus''' is an online information service produced by the [[United States National Library of Medicine]]. The service provides [[content curation|curated]] consumer health information in English and Spanish with select content in additional languages.<ref>{{cite web
 | url=http://medlineplus.gov/spanish/
 | title=Medlineplus.gov en español
 | language=es
 | access-date=2009-06-08
 | archive-date=2020-05-07
 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200507162507/https://medlineplus.gov/spanish/
 | url-status=live
 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://medlineplus.gov/languages/languages.html|title=Health Information in Multiple Languages: MedlinePlus|website=medlineplus.gov|access-date=2019-10-22|archive-date=2019-10-09|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191009003711/https://medlineplus.gov/languages/languages.html|url-status=live}}</ref>
The site brings together information from the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the [[National Institutes of Health]] (NIH), other U.S. government agencies, and health-related organizations.  There is also a site optimized for display on mobile devices, in both English and Spanish. In 2015, about 400 million people from around the world used MedlinePlus.<ref>{{cite web |title=MedlinePlus Statistics |url=https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/usestatistics.html |publisher=[[National Institutes of Health]] |access-date=2016-05-08 |archive-date=2016-06-05 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605060717/https://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/usestatistics.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The service is funded by the NLM and is free to users.

MedlinePlus provides encyclopedic information on health and drug issues, and provides a directory of medical services. MedlinePlus Connect links patients or providers in [[electronic health record]] (EHR) systems to related MedlinePlus information on conditions or medications.

PubMed Health was another NLM site that offered consumer health information, in addition to information for health professionals. However, "PubMed Health, a portal for systematic reviews as well as consumer health information, was discontinued on October 31, 2018. The same or similar content is being provided through other NLM resources, namely PubMed and Bookshelf (for systematic review content), and MedlinePlus (for consumer health information)."<ref name="PubMed_Health">{{Citation |author=National Library of Medicine |title=PubMed Health |url=https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ |postscript=. |access-date=2017-09-04 |archive-date=2018-10-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181018170051/https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmedhealth/ |url-status=live }}</ref>