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Database Info: Medline (PubMed)

Description Indexes the international literature on biomedicine, including health, the biological and physical sciences, humanities, and information science as they relate to medicine and health care. Information is indexed from journals published worldwide, as well as selected monographs from congresses and symposia. Includes thousands of records with substantial abstracts.

MEDLINE is the largest component of PubMed, the freely accessible online database of biomedical journal citations and abstracts created by the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM®). Approximately 5,000 journals published in the United States and more than 80 other countries have been selected and are currently indexed for MEDLINE.

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