Guidelines for Sites Linking To mayoclinic.org

We welcome links to pages on our site and only ask that you follow a few simple guidelines.

Links to mayoclinic.org home page
Use text only (for example, Mayo Clinic). Do not use JavaScript or the Mayo logo. The text below should assist in coding the HTML link to mayoclinic.org home page. Use a plain text link and paste the block of HTML code provided into the page.

Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

If you need a description of Mayo Clinic, please use the following:

Mayo Clinic
Mayo Clinic

Text to describe Mayo Clinic:
Mayo Clinic is the first and largest integrated, not-for-profit group practice in the world. Doctors from every medical specialty work together to care for patients, joined by common systems and a philosophy of "the needs of the patient come first." More than 3,400 physicians, scientists and researchers and 48,000 allied health staff work at Mayo Clinic, which has sites in Rochester, Minn., Jacksonville, Fla., and Scottsdale/Phoenix, Ariz. Mayo Clinic also serves 70 communities in the upper Midwest through the Mayo Health System. Collectively, these locations treat more than half a million people each year.

Links to mayoclinic.org article pages

Links should be text only (for example, http://www.mayoclinic.org/congestive-heart-failure/) and should not use the logo from the site, any images or JavaScript. The text below should assist in coding the HTML link. Use a plain text link and paste the block of HTML code provided into the page.

Please follow the style below to create proper text for links to interior pages.

Mayo Clinic (name of topic) information
For example, to create a link to http://www.mayoclinic.org/congestive-heart-failure/, the text should read:

Mayo Clinic congestive heart failure information
Mayo Clinic congestive heart failure information

General guidelines for linking to Mayo Clinic

• URLs for individual pages may change as we update content. Please check your links often to ensure they remain active. If you're not linking to a specific article, we recommend that you link to the section page of the content area that is most relevant to your topic.
  
  
• Re-posting mayoclinic.org content or images on other Web sites or framing of mayoclinic.org pages within another Web site is prohibited. Instead of framing, we encourage you to open mayoclinic.org in a new window. Users have found that approach easy to navigate, and they remain on your site.
  
  To point users to mayoclinic.org and open the results in a new window, the code is: www.mayoclinic.org.
  
  
• Information on your Web site should not imply a relationship or association with Mayo Clinic or a related entity (unless, of course there is a formal relationship). All our content is protected by U.S. and international copyright laws.

Use of mayoclinic.org Web feeds
We welcome the use of mayoclinic.org Web feeds for personal use in a news reader or as part of a noncommercial Web site or blog. If you post our Web content links on your Web site, we ask that you provide proper attribution to "Mayo Clinic" and that you also provide a link to our home page at www.mayoclinic.org as described above under "Links to the mayoclinic.org home page."