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Drugs and Pharmaceuticals
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For information on supplements, vitamins, herbal, botanical and other products, please also
check the Complementary and Alternative Health Research Guide,
or the Nutrition Research Guide.
- U.S.
Food and Drug Administration: Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research (CDER)
- Information from the FDA including
drug approvals, consumer drug information sheets,
over-the-counter drugs, and drug news. This
web site also provides the Orange Book, the National Drug Code Directory, and an Inactive
Ingredient Database.
- DailyMed
- Provided by the National Library of Medicine. Find FDA package
insert information (product labels) for medications. Links out to clinical trials, research articles,
and biochemical data.
- Drugs.com
- Drug Information Online
- Comprehensive drug information
database provided by Micromedex. Provides information
about prescription and non-prescription drugs.
The site also has a drug interaction checker,
a pill identifier, an image search, and the
latest news about medications.
- Drugs Information Portal - NLM
- Drug information resource from the
National Library of Medicine. Links to information for consumers, as well as
references to toxicological and scientific journals, manufacturer's drug labels,
chemical structures, and synonyms of a drug name.
- MEDLINEplus
Drug Information
- Information for consumers
about prescription and over-the-counter drugs.
Provided by the National Library of Medicine
and the National Institutes of Health.
- Medscape - Drug Reference
- The Medscape site is free but requires registration. Provides detailed drug information for consumers and physicians. The site also has an easy-to-use drug interaction checker.
- RxList:
The Internet Drug Index
- Consists primarily of products
currently on the U.S. market or close to approval.
Searchable by drug name.
- RxMed
- A peer-reviewed resource for
family physicians. Includes medication prescribing
information, and patient handouts providing
facts on over four hundred illnesses.
- SafeMedication.com
- From the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists. Information
on pharmaceuticals and how to administer medications of different forms.
- USP:
U.S. Pharmacopeia
- Provides information on close
to 800 generic medicines for health care professionals,
pharmaceutical manufacturers, patients and consumers.
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