Natural Alternative Use Case MedlinePlus

Natural Alternative Use Case

MedlinePlus

• http://medlineplus.gov/

• It helps answer health questions
• It brings together authoritative information from NLM, NIH, and other health related organizations
• It links to PubMed
• It contains extensive information about drugs, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive patient tutorials and latest health news
• It also includes information about natural supplements

MedlinePlus: Supplement (Ginkgo)

English WikiPedia (Ginkgo)

Chinese WikiPedia (Ginkgo)

ClinicalTrials.gov (Ginkgo)

Latest News (USA TODAY)

Possible Directions

• Identify conflicting research findings/hypotheses

• Link to resources such as drug databases and TCM

• Semantic Wiki for collective knowledge acquisition and semantic annotation (e.g., Wikipedia/DBPedia)

• Semantic Web applications for integrated queries