Selected Websites relevant to drugs and chemicals.
This resource contains information on more than 1000 drugs including why particular medications are prescribed, how they should be taken, and common and rare side effects.
Format: Website
Provider: American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (AHSP)
A listing of more than 41,000 industry and government-sponsored clinical trials as well as new drug therapies recently approved by the FDA. The site is designed to be a resource for patients interested in participating in clinical trials as well as for research professionals.
Format: Website
Provider: Thomson
Clinical Trials.gov, developed by the National Library of Medicine (part of the National Institutes of Health), provides patients, family members, and members of the public with current information about the location of clinical trials, their design and purpose, criteria for participation, and, in many cases, further information about the disease and treatment under study. Included are more than 4,000 federal and private medical studies involving patients and others at over 47,000 locations nationwide. The
Duke Clinical Trials from Duke Clinical Research Institute (DCRI) are also available.
Format: Website
Creator: National Library of Medicine
Provider: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Links to clinical trials at Duke, clinical trials nationwide, and clinical research networks.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke Clinical Research Institute
Use this resource to search for pills with a specific color, shape, and/or marking.
Format: Website
Provider: Medical University of South Carolina
Index to drug-specific information as well as tips for the safe use of over-the-counter drug products and buying medications online. Some information in Spanish.
Format: Website
Provider: Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies. The search box in the middle of the page lets you search many of these resources simultaneously. More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). The PubMed/Medline link provides medical literature describing research, and TOXLINE provides toxicology literature. Resources such as MedlinePlus provide easy to read summaries of the uses and efficacy of a drug.
Format: Website
Provider: National Library of Medicine
Guide to some of the drug resources shelved in Ref. 11 or Ref. 12 of the Medical Center Library arranged by general information; drug names; new drugs; evaluations and comparisons; adverse effects, toxicology, and drug interactions; and prices.
Format: Website
Provider: Medical Center Library
A searchable catalog of approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs, including drug approval letters, labels, and review packages. Information on the FDA's
approval process can be found here.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. Food and Drug Adminsitration (FDA)
Authorized by Congress to enforce the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act and several other public health laws, the agency monitors the manufacture, import, transport, storage, and sale of all foods, medicines, and medical devices in the United States.
Format: Website
Provider: U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)
A nonprofit organization educating the healthcare community about safe medication practices. The institute tracks published medical dosage errors. The link, "Textbook Errata," lists corrections when a medication dosing error or other serious error has been identified in a published article or textbook. This site also links to medication safety alerts which are listed by date since 1996
Format: Website
Provider: Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Information on thousands of generic and brand name prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMasterŪ , a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DIŪ Advice for the PatientŪ, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
Format: Website
Provider: National Library of Medicine
This site draws on the
Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) and contains a database of prescription information ranging from recommended dosage to side effects and what to do if you accidentally skip a pill. This source is meant to supplement, not substitute for, professional advice.
Format: Website
Provider: Thomson Healthcare
Drug Topics Magazine's list of the top drugs.
Format: Website
Provider: Drug Topics Magazine
Use this resource to search and identify pills by imprint, shape or color.
Format: Website
Provider: Drugs.com
Inappropriate medication use in older adults. Please cite: Fick DM, Cooper JW, Wade WE, Waller JL, Maclean JR, Beers MH. Updating the Beers criteria for potentially inappropriate medication use in older adults: results of a US consensus panel of experts. Arch Intern Med. 2003;163:2716-2724.
Format: Website
Provider: Duke Clinical Research Institute
Information on products currently on the U.S. market or close to approval. This site contains the same drug monographs that appear in Mosby's GenRx.
Format: Website
