Ask about asthma and type 2 diabetes

Answers are written only from public pages by MedlinePlus, NIDDK, NHLBI and CDC. Every sentence links to the passage it came from, and the assistant says so when those pages don't cover your question.

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The same question goes through plain semantic search and through the system chosen in the evaluation (hybrid search with condition matching and a re-ranker). Each side shows the passages it found and the answer written from them.

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Evaluation results

These numbers were computed once, before this website was built, on 89 held-out test questions. They are precomputed and do not change when you use the assistant.

About this tool

What it is for

Reliable patient information is usually written one condition at a time. People living with both asthma and type 2 diabetes have to piece answers together across many pages. This tool searches a fixed set of 373 passages from four U.S. government health websites, writes a short answer only from the passages it found, and shows exactly where each sentence came from.

What it will not do

It does not give medicine doses, does not tell you to start, stop or change a medicine, and cannot tell you whether you have a condition. If a question sounds like an emergency it shows an urgent-care message instead of an answer. It was tested on questions written by its developer, not by patients or clinicians, and no clinician has reviewed it.

Privacy

No cookies, analytics or tracking. Your question is sent to the answer service and to the language model provider (Groq) to write the answer; it is not stored by this project. Fonts are served from this site.

Sources and credit

Source passages: MedlinePlus (National Library of Medicine); National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK); National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), National Institutes of Health; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). These materials are available free of charge on medlineplus.gov, niddk.nih.gov, nhlbi.nih.gov and cdc.gov. Their use here does not imply endorsement by NLM, NIH, CDC, HHS or the U.S. Government. Text retrieved 24 October 2026 and may since have been updated at the source.