• The Health Topic pages now feature images, summaries, synonyms, a new category labeled "Start Here", and a redesigned table of contents.
  
• These additions, informed by customer feedback and extensive usability testing, enhance the user experience on the MedlinePlus Health Topic pages.
  
• Visit the Health Topics homepage to start exploring.
  

Old Look

 

 

Images

• High quality medical illustrations and photographs featured on every page.

 

 

Summaries

• Just enough information to get you started on your topic!
  
• Written just for MedinePlus, these overviews will introduce you to our topics in easy-to-understand language. The information comes from the National Institutes of Health, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and other federal government sources.
  
• Links in the summary guide you to related topics. Maybe you were really looking for allergy, not asthma.
  
• Summaries are in the public domain, so you can reproduce them if you like.
  
• All 750 English topics will have a summary soon - and Spanish too!

 

Synonyms

• Your doctor said you have "pruritus" but all you know is you itch.  We've added synonyms to our topics, so you'll see both the medical name and commonly used words.

Start Here

• MedlinePlus pages are full of information - sometimes too full!  If you aren't sure where to begin your research, we suggest the links under "Start Here".  These should help first time visitors to our page!
  
  

 

 

Table of Contents

• See everything we cover at a glance and use these links to quickly get right to the information you were looking for!
  

New Look