FAQ: Disease/Condition/Therapy Information

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NLM® staff cannot answer questions about individual medical cases, provide second opinions or recommend drugs or therapies. You must talk to your healthcare provider about these issues.

To find information on disease, condition or therapy, go to:

• MedlinePlus® - the NLM consumer health Web pages links you to full-text information.
  http://medlineplus.gov
  
  MedlinePlus Go Local - for information in your local area
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/golocal/index.html
  
  
• MEDLINE®, NLM database of professional medical literature
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/usemedline.html
  
  
• Genetics Home Reference™
  http://ghr.nlm.nih.gov/
  
  
• Contact your local public, medical or university library to find out what information services are available to you.
  
  Ask your librarian for help with computer searches, getting copies of articles and finding other resources that have information on your topic. Also, see our FAQ on getting journal articles at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/ill.html
  
  

For more information, go to:

• Finding Consumer Health Information FAQs at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/faqpc.html
  
  
• National Library of Medicine® Guide to Finding Health Information at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/services/guide.html
  
  
• MedlinePlus Guide to Healthy Web Surfing page at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/healthywebsurfing.html

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Last reviewed: 04 May 2009
Last updated: 04 May 2009
First published: 01 January 1998
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