Guidelines for sites linking to MayoClinic.com

If you wish to link to the home page of MayoClinic.com ( www.MayoClinic.com) or to individual pages, please observe the following:

• Links should be text only (for example, www.MayoClinic.com) and not use the logo from the site. The text below should assist in coding the HTML link to MayoClinic.com. Choose a plain text link and paste the block of HTML code that's under it right into the page.

MayoClinic.com
<a href=" http://www.mayoclinic.com/"MayoClinic.com</a

If you need text to describe MayoClinic.com, please use the following:
Reliable information for a healthier life from Mayo Clinic
<a href=" http://www.mayoclinic.com"MayoClinic.com</a — Reliable information for a healthier life from Mayo Clinic

Text to describe MayoClinic.com:
Mayo Clinic Health Information's award-winning consumer Web site offers health information, and self-improvement and disease management tools. MayoClinic.com's medical experts and editorial professionals bring you access to the knowledge and experience of Mayo Clinic for all of your consumer health information needs, from cancer, diabetes and heart disease to nutrition, exercise and pregnancy.

• Reposting MayoClinic.com content or images on other Web sites or framing of MayoClinic.com pages within another Web site is prohibited. Instead of framing we encourage you to open MayoClinic.com in a new window. Users have found that approach easy to navigate, and they remain on your site.

To point users to MayoClinic.com and open the results in a new window, the code is:
<a href=" http://www.mayoclinic.com/" target="mayoclinicwindow" www.MayoClinic.com</a

• Links to MayoClinic.com should not appear (through highlighting, for instance) as though the linking site has an overarching relationship with Mayo Clinic.

Links can be directed to the MayoClinic.com home page or to individual articles on MayoClinic.com. Note that URLs often change for individual articles as we update content, so it's important if you're providing article-level links that you check those links frequently to be sure that they are still live.

• If you want to link to drug information on MayoClinic.com, the link can go only to the MayoClinic.com Drug Information home page at: http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/druginformation/index.cfm. Links to individual drug pages are not allowed.

• Paraphrasing or excerpting MayoClinic.com content is not permitted.

• MayoClinic.com has a content licensing program. If you're interested in licensing MayoClinic.com content on your site, please contact Lindsay Dingle for more information at dingle.lindsay@mayo.edu or (507) 284-8875.

April 30, 2003

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