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Life & fun · April 13, 2023

Search engine for trustworthy medical information

Hi HN, I’d like to share MediSearch with you. A few months ago, I had a knee injury and got several surgery options from doctors. I had to make an important decision, but the medical information search experience was terrible. The sites I found either did not answer my questions (long health blogs) or were too technical to easily understand (scientific papers). This gave me and my friend the idea for MediSearch. Our goal is to build a system that provides direct accurate answers to medical questions based on trustworthy sources. We’d like to make MediSearch helpful to everyone and we still…

Search engine for trustworthy medical information launched on April 13, 2023 with 5 votes, #2,314 of 4,853 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 3 years on.

What it does

Get direct science-based answers to medical questions. Search engine for trusted medical information.

In the maker’s words, at launch

Hi HN, I’d like to share MediSearch with you. A few months ago, I had a knee injury and got several surgery options from doctors. I had to make an important decision, but the medical information search experience was terrible. The sites I found either did not answer my questions (long health blogs) or were too…

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