Electronic Tools for Drug Information
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Drug Information Portals
- National Institutes of Health site on HIV drugs and vaccine information
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ)
- Includes “For Your Health” brochures for consumers on such topics as “Preventing and Treating Blood Clots” and “Comparing Two Kinds of Blood Pressure Pills: ACEIs and ARBs”
- Include guidelines such as products for smoking cessation
The Body: The Complete HIV/AIDS Resource--Medical Dictionaries and Databases
- Resource for AIDS/HIV patients, families, and caregivers
- Comprehensive compilation of HIV drug information, including news, interactions, dictionaries, and links to general medical databases
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Includes travel, vaccines and immunization information
- Professional and patient package inserts on drugs--by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class
- U.S. government portal to cosmetics, drug, food, radiological, tobacco products vaccine and veterinary products information
- Health calculators and charts
- Includes Advanced Body Surface Area (BSA) calculator
- From producers of Facts & Comparisons
- Gateway to current vaccine recommendations from U.S. and Canada, vaccine trials, and more vaccine-related news
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Martindale's Calculators On-Line Center
- Includes multi-disciplinary calculators such as a Total Parenteral Nutrition Calculator from Washington University School of Medicine
Martindale's Pharmacy, Pharmacology, Toxicology Center
MedNets--Pharmacology Databases
- Some relevant drug information links
- Joint effort of First DataBank, the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and Medscape
- Combines information from the National Drug Data File with information from the American Hospital Formulary Service Drug Information
- Includes drug information by drug name or disease.
- See Medscape for Pharmacists Resource page for more drug links
- Drug resources from the U.S. National Library of Medicine (NLM), National Institutes of Health and U.S. Department of Health and Human Services
- Includes a variety of drug topics such as medications and breastfeeding, chemical structures and toxicology
- British-based site for pharmaceutical professionals
- Includes current information on upcoming conferences and meetings, links to related websites, and discussion forums
- Includes top 3,000 most prescribed drugs according to IMS, an independent market research company
- Contact information for drug manufactures and their corresponding Medical Affairs phone number.
- "New Products" section, "Charts" such as common antibiotics for the pediatric patients (including antibiotic dosage and flavor)
- "Guidelines" with reference links back to HSTAT (NLM's Health Services/Technology Assessment Database) and AHCPR (Agency for Health Care Research and Quality)
- Register for free access to Web version of this product
- Free print version for physicians, physician assistants and nurse practitioners
- Drug and dietary supplements information
- Includes links to other U.S. federal government websites
Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS)
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Pharmacy
- National Library of Medicine's site on Wireless Information System for Emergency Responders (WISER).
- Over 350 listed hazardous substances and information on compound verification, medical management of symptoms and more
- Site facilitates identification of unknown hazardous substances via a series of options to narrow down the possible offender
- Free download for a variety of handheld devices