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Consumer Health Titles Added to MEDLINE®

Consumer Health Titles Added to MEDLINE®. NLM Technical Bulletin. 1998 Mar–Apr;(301):e1.

January 1998 [posted]

In June 1997, the National Library of Medicine (NLM) announced free Web-based access to MEDLINE through the PubMed and Internet Grateful Med interfaces. Since that time, many patients and their families have searched MEDLINE looking for useful health information. In response to this growing user group, the NLM is expanding its coverage of publications whose primary is the lay public. Recently, the following twelve consumer health titles were selected for MEDLINE indexing.

Alternative Medicine Review
Breastfeeding Review
FDA Consumer
Harvard Health Letter
Harvard Heart Letter
Harvard Men's Health Watch
Harvard Mental Health Letter
Harvard Women's Health Watch
Health News (Massachusetts Medical Society)
Johns Hopkins Medical Letter: Health After 50
Mayo Clinic Health Letter
Medscape Women's Health (online journal)