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DRUGS Websites

The Library has 299 websites and
18 results for the descriptor "drugs".

ABX Guide (Antibiotics Guide)

  • 1. ABX Guide (Antibiotics Guide)
  • Provider:Johns Hopkins University
  • Keywords: drugs , infectious disease , PDA access , CME , physician
  • Description: Browse this website by diagnosis, drug, pathogen, management and vaccine categories. Free registration required. This site is meant for medical professionals. Also contains links to other Johns Hopkins resources- their Division of Infectious Diseases, Center for Global Health, HIV Guide and more.

AIDSinfo

  • 2. AIDSinfo
  • Provider:DHHS/National Institutes of Health
  • Keywords: clinical trials , drugs , clinical practice guidelines , infectious disease , public health , NIH , AIDS , vaccine
  • Description: AIDS information for the practitioner is arranged in tabbed pages for practice guidelines, AIDS drug information, a clinical trials list, vaccine information, and coinfections and other accompanying health conditions. There is also a page of miscellaneous additional information, which includes links for young students writing papers about AIDS and a glossary of terms.

AMSA (American Medical Student Association) PharmFree Scorecard

  • 3. AMSA (American Medical Student Association) PharmFree Scorecard
  • Provider:AMSA (American Medical Student Association)
  • Keywords: drugs , medicine , pharmaceutical , pharmacy , student
  • Description: AMSA advocates for "evidence-based rather than marketing-based prescribing practices" and analyzes "...the presence or absence of a policy regulating the interactions between... medical campuses and the pharmaceutical and device industries" with the goal of eliminating conflicts of interest. The scorecard measures policy on gifts, speaking engagements, consulting, purchasing and disclosure, as well as other factors, and gives an overall grade to each campus listed. The current scorecard was developed in association with The Pew Charitable Trusts Prescription Project.

CancerBackup.org

  • 4. CancerBackup.org
  • Provider:Macmillan.org (UK)
  • Keywords: cancer , consumer health , drugs , education , healthcare professional , patient education
  • Description: This British cancer website provides information for patients, caregivers and physicians on all aspects of cancer: types, treatments, coping with treatment side effects, pain, etc. Visitors may also communicate about their questions with oncology nurses. Free publications written by expert healthcare providers are available to order in print or to download, and a forum/chat website called "What Now?" is also featured, in which patients share their experiences and provide support to each other.

CHI: Precision Medical Data Mining

  • 5. CHI: Precision Medical Data Mining
  • Provider:CureHunter Inc.
  • Keywords: decision support , drugs , evidence-based practice , pharmaceutical , point-of-care , research , scientist , search , physician , reports , deep web , vaccine , biologics
  • Description: This integrated search, data retrieval and analysis utility does semantic searching of the NLM Medline archive for pharmaceutical and biological-agent treatments of diseases, returning evidence-based results in seconds. Experts' names are listed in hypertext. WARNING: This search engine is NOT a free service. We provide this link for informational purposes only. An individual subscription or per-report payment is required. Available to medical professionals in research interface and mobile versions; a patient interface is also available. Individual pdf reports can be purchased, with ongoing updates included lasting for a 3-year period.

ConsumerMedSafety.org

  • 6. ConsumerMedSafety.org
  • Provider:Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP)
  • Keywords: advocacy , consumer health , drugs , pharmaceutical , pharmacy , safety
  • Description: This website comes from the nonprofit organization ISMP (Institute for Safe Medication Practices) in partnership with the FDA, the American Hospital Association, the Joint Commission of Healthcare Organizations and others. The ISMP aims to help prevent medication errors through collecting and analyzing reports of medication-related hazardous conditions, near-misses, errors, and other adverse drug events and making the information available to consumers and the health care community. Consumers are encouraged to contribute information here via a forum for reporting medication errors. This site offers a feature (free registration required) called "Get Your 60 Second Medication Check," which lists potential side effects, treatment duplication and drug interactions for various medications. Patient information inserts are also available full text, in .pdf format.

DailyMed

  • 7. DailyMed
  • Provider:National Library of Medicine
  • Keywords: consumer health , drugs , NLM , pharmaceutical , trademark
  • Description: DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This website provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource for medication content and labeling. Other information about prescription drugs may also be included. "NLM regularly processes data files uploaded from FDA's system and provides and maintains this Web site for the public to use in accessing the information."

Disaster Psychiatry Handbook

  • 8. Disaster Psychiatry Handbook
  • Provider:American Psychiatric Association and the American Psychiatric Foundation
  • Keywords: disaster , drugs , ethics , point-of-care , psychiatry , public health , physician , PTSD
  • Description: This brief handbook, full of authoritative references and written for psychiatric health professionals, contains chapters on cultural and ethnic considerations, medico-legal issues, communicating through the media, and providing guidance for parents and caregivers.

Drugs.com

  • 9. Drugs.com
  • Provider:Drugsite Trust
  • Keywords: dietary supplements , drugs , pharmaceutical , pharmacology
  • Description: The Drugs.com database is a compilation of licensed information from Wolters Kluwer Health, Physicians’ Desk Reference, Cerner Multum and Thomson Micromedex. It provides information on more than 24,000 prescription, over-the-counter and natural products. Search by name or medical condition. A "pill finder" image collection and a drug interactions database are also provided.

MayoClinic.com

  • 10. MayoClinic.com
  • Provider:Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research
  • Keywords: consumer health , diet , drugs , general health
  • Description: The Mayo Clinic website's mission is to empower people to manage their own health. To that end, it provides, in addition to the usual diseases and conditions fare: a drugs and supplements section; a section on self-assessment tools; videos, blogs and podcasts on various topics from stretching and exercise to heart disease. Under the Education & Research tab, there is information on clinical trials and more material for the medical professional. The Mayo Clinic is the world's largest integrated, not-for-profit group medical practice.

MedLinePlus

  • 11. MedLinePlus
  • Provider:National Library of Medicine
  • Keywords: clinical trials , consumer health , drugs , general health , healthcare , NLM
  • Description: Provides information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on more than 700 diseases and conditions; includes lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials.

Merck Manual Medical Library, Home Edition

  • 12. Merck Manual Medical Library, Home Edition
  • Provider:Merck & Co., Inc.
  • Keywords: anatomy , consumer health , drugs , medicine , women , full text
  • Description: This manual is an invaluable resource for the layman, explaining medical conditions from every aspect, with introductions giving background information on the biology of body systems and organs, and providing supporting anatomical and 3-D visual aids. Of particular value is the Drugs section, with information on pharmacokinetics, drug interaction and adverse reactions, herbal supplements and over-the-counter drugs. The Special Subjects area contains sections on medical decision-making, limb prosthetics, travel medicine, women's health, alternative and complementary medicines, and more.

NIHSeniorHealth

  • 13. NIHSeniorHealth
  • Provider:National Institute on Aging/National Library of Medicine
  • Keywords: aging , alternative medicine , Alzheimer , cancer , clinical trials , consumer health , drugs , general health , geriatrics , mental health , NLM , NIH
  • Description: "NIHSeniorHealth makes aging-related health information easily accessible for family members and friends seeking reliable, easy to understand online health information." Because this site was developed jointly by the National Institute on Aging (NIA) and the National Library of Medicine (NLM), it differs somewhat from the information in the "Seniors Health" section of the NIH website. NIHSeniorHealth has three special features which make it especially user-friendly: a variable text size option, contrast on/off option, and an auditory version.

NSW Multicultural Health Communication Service: Resources by Language

NursingCenter

  • 15. NursingCenter
  • Provider:Lippincott Williams & Wilkins (LWW)
  • Keywords: drugs , nursing , jobs , news , continuing education
  • Description: This site is a multi-faceted resource for nurses which includes CME activities, job search resources, news, drug update alerts and discussion forums. Although registration is not required, optional free registration allows the user to create an individualized profile for tracking your CME activities and filtering information to your own specialty or interests. Please note: many free full-text articles are included, but many references do not provide free full text if accessed directly from NursingCenter. Please, always check HAM-TMC Library's A-Z journal list before paying for an article at NursingCenter; the Library subscribes to a full collection of LWW journals on your behalf.

RxNorm

  • 16. RxNorm
  • Provider:National Library of Medicine
  • Keywords: clinical , drugs , NLM , products , links
  • Description: From the website: "RxNorm provides standard names for clinical drugs... and for dose forms as administered to a patient. It provides links from clinical drugs, both branded and generic, to their active ingredients, drug components (active ingredient + strength), and related brand names... RxNorm links its names to many of the drug vocabularies commonly used in pharmacy management and drug interaction software, including... First Databank, Micromedex, MediSpan, Gold Standard Alchemy, and Multum. By providing links between these vocabularies, RxNorm can mediate messages between systems not using the same software and vocabulary. RxNorm is one of a suite of designated standards for use in U.S. Federal Government systems for the electronic exchange of clinical health information."

Texas Department of State Health Services

U.S. Food and Drug Administration