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    • MedlinePlus Health Topic Web Service

    Metadata Updated: July 29, 2025

    A search-based Web service that provides access to disease, condition and wellness information via MedlinePlus health topic data in XML format. The service accepts keyword searches as requests and returns relevant MedlinePlus health topics in ranked order. The service also returns health topics summaries, search result snippets and other associated data.

    Access & Use Information

    Public: This dataset is intended for public access and use. License: See this page for license information.

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    Dates

    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025

    Metadata Source

    Harvested from Healthdata.gov

    Other Data Resources

    Additional Metadata

    Resource Type Dataset
    Metadata Created Date November 10, 2020
    Metadata Updated Date July 29, 2025
    Publisher National Institutes of Health (NIH)
    Maintainer
    Identifier de0c318c-5a83-4a99-9bc6-2feb7e24b204
    Data First Published 2012-05-30
    Data Last Modified 2023-07-25
    Category Community, Health
    Public Access Level public
    Bureau Code 009:00
    Metadata Context https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.jsonld
    Metadata Catalog ID https://healthdata.gov/data.json
    Schema Version https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema
    Catalog Describedby https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema/catalog.json
    Data Quality True
    Harvest Object Id ae24abc3-f368-4819-a76d-8edaa46f2175
    Harvest Source Id 651e43b2-321c-4e4c-b86a-835cfc342cb0
    Harvest Source Title Healthdata.gov
    Homepage URL https://healthdata.gov/dataset/medlineplus-health-topic-web-service
    License https://opendatacommons.org/licenses/odbl/1.0/
    Program Code 009:046
    Source Datajson Identifier True
    Source Hash 550877a596f6ffbb234ea25ff0302bfac981e656eb60d8e92ff234bd689731b4
    Source Schema Version 1.1
    Temporal 2010-01-01T00:00:00-05:00/2010-01-01T00:00:00-05:00

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