Drug & Pharmacology Resources on the Web
DRUG INFORMATION
- MayoClinic.Com Drug Information -- Information about prescription and over-the-counter medications, as well as herb, vitamin and other supplement information from Natural Standard. It may be searched by either brand name or generic name. (Suggestion: Use alphabetic links for searching for supplements.)
- Rx List -- RxList
Database consists of products currently on the US market or close to approval.
It may be searched by either brand name or generic name and can be searched
simultaneously for potential drug interactions, side effects and indications.
- PDRHealth -- PDRHealth is a searchable database of drug and health information written for the general public.
- SafeMedication.Com -- American Society of Health-System Pharmacists searchable database is based on ASHP’s Medication Teaching Manual: The Guide to Patient Drug Information.
- FDA - Drug Information -- U.S.
Food & Drug Administration, Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Important information from the government for the professional and the consumer.
- NCADI -- The National Clearinghouse for Alcohol and Drug Information (NCADI) is the information service of the Center for Substance Abuse Prevention of the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in the U.S. Department of Health & Human Services. NCADI is the world's largest resource for
current information and materials concerning substance abuse.
- PhRMA. Drugs in Development. -- This database
allows you to search for information about medicines in development by disease, indication or drug name. PhRMA membership represents approximately 100 U.S. companies that have a primary commitment to pharmaceutical research.
- Drug Information Portal [NLM] -- The Drug Information Portal offers a varied selection of resources and focused topics in medicine and drug-related information. More than 15,000 drugs are available for searching. Search results include links to related drug information in MedlinePlus®, AIDSinfo®, Medline/PubMed®, LactMed, HSDB®, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE®, DailyMed®, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus®, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.
POISONING & TOXICITY
- Southeast Texas Poison Center -- The Southeast Texas Poison Center is a 24-hour poison emergency treatment and information resource for health care professionals and the public in
Southeast Texas. The Southeast Texas Poison Center is located at the University of Texas Medical Branch campus in Galveston. Contains a "poison primer" as well as other links to poison information.
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Poisoning Resources -- Links to information and sites about poisoning.
- American Association of Poison Control Centers -- Among the information on the site: Find Your Poison Control Center, Poison Prevention and Education.
- Agency for Toxic Substances & Disease Registry -- ATSDR as part of the U.S. Dept of Health and Human Services performs public health assessments of waste sites, health consultations concerning specific hazardous substances, health surveillance and registries, response to emergency releases of hazardous substances, applied research in support of public health assessments, information development and dissemination, and education and training concerning hazardous substances.
OTHER DRUG & PHARMACOLOGY RESOURCES
- Martindale's Virtual Pharmacy Center -- This site includes medical dictionaries, link to on-line Pharmacy journals and much MUCH more.
- PharmWeb -- PharmWeb is a well developed and structured site which has been designed to be fully interactive. Information is retrieved and disseminated using
several methods including the use of mailing lists, forms, responsive questionnaires
and on-line databases.
- Pharmacology News -- ScienceDaily Pharmacology news.
- Medi-Lexicon -- formerly Pharma-Lexicon; A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations. Plus medical news and searches for the medical, pharmaceutical or healthcare professional.
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