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Introduction
See also Canadian consumer health information (CHI) portal, Consumer health information and Patient education
MedlinePlus® - http://medlineplus.gov is a highly-regarded consumer health website produced by the National Library of Medicine (U.S.). NLM focuses most of its programs and services on delivering information to health professionals but, during the 1990s, decided the general public needed better access to health information in a consumer-friendly, web-based format. NLM sought to meet this need with the introduction of MedlinePlus which debuted in 1998 with 22 English-language health topics. It has since grown to over 900 health topics in English and Spanish and includes links to health information in over 60 languages. Since its inception, MedlinePlus® has received numerous awards for its quality and scores highly in the American Consumer Satisfaction Index (ACSI). (See also InformationRx program - http://www.informationrx.org/) MedlinePlus® has a Twitter feed (http://twitter.com/MedlinePlus4you) and a mobile version (http://m.medlineplus.gov/).
NLM announced a similar website in 2011 called PubMed Health. It remains to be seen how this new website will work in tandem with MedlinePlus.
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