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What is the difference between MedlinePlus, MEDLINE, and PubMed?

April 26, 2017difference MEDLINE medlineplus PubMed

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What is the difference between MedlinePlus, MEDLINE, and PubMed?

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MedlinePlus is a free web resource designed for consumers with the intent of providing reliable, accurate health information to the public. The information on MedlinePlus ranges in literacy levels to accommodate a wide variety of users. This site contains pages of carefully selected links to free full-text web resources with authoritative health information, including dictionaries, directories, organizations, news sources and more than 700 health topics geared towards patients, families, and the public. MedlinePlus provides access to a medical encyclopedia and dictionary, drug information and current health news and more. MedlinePlus/esp is the Spanish website. MEDLINE is a database of over 14 million article citations published in more than 4,800 biomedical journals, used primarily by researchers and clinicians, and uses NLM’s controlled vocabulary, MeSH®, and Publication Types to index each article (www.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/meshhome.html). MEDLINE can be searched for free using NLM’s Pub