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MedlinePlus offers human-translated health handouts and topic pages for libraries
Summary
NNLM presenter Nick Vera demonstrated MedlinePlus features useful to libraries: searchable topic pages, human-translated materials (Spanish, Arabic PDFs), links to PubMed and clinicaltrials.gov, and printable handouts for patrons.
Nick Vera walked attendees through MedlinePlus, the National Library of Medicine’s public health information site for patients and families, showing search results for "anxiety," related topics (for example, panic disorder), and features that make the site library-friendly. "These are all translated by humans, not AI," Vera said when demonstrating the site’s language options and bilingual PDF handouts.
Vera highlighted MedlinePlus's health-topics navigation, the medical-encyclopedia box, and the way MedlinePlus auto-generates PubMed searches for topic-related journal articles. He demonstrated that clinicians’ and patrons’ needs can be met through the site’s downloadable bilingual PDFs (example shown: depression in Arabic with an English counterpart) and pointed participants to ClinicalTrials.gov and PubMed for clinical-trial and research follow-up.
