| The National Library of Medicine (NLM) helps you | | | | NLM is located on the campus of the national |
| find answers to all your health care questions. The | | | | institutes of health in Bethesda in Maryland and it's |
| NLM's medical library collection has more than 8 | | | | the largest medical library in the world. There are |
| million books, photographs, microfilms, journals and | | | | the rarest medical works and the oldest medical |
| other items. It's a resource for health care, | | | | history collections inside this library. The library |
| biomedicine, and the humanities, technology and | | | | offers a reading room for convenience or items |
| science as it they relate to biomedicine. NLM | | | | can be requested through the interlibrary loan |
| offers a website call MedlinePlus that is one | | | | system. The National Library of Medicine once |
| service of the NLM to direct you to the | | | | published a monthly guide to the articles in five |
| information to help answer health questions. This | | | | thousand journals. The guide called Index Medicus |
| website also has extensive information about | | | | was begun in 1879. The final issue was published in |
| drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, | | | | December 2004. The information is now offered |
| interactive patient tutorials, and latest health news. | | | | at its website call PubMed. |