Drug Information

About Herbs, Botanicals and Other Products: Provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements and more. Produced by Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ): AHRQ, a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the lead agency charged with supporting research designed to improve the quality of health care, reduce its cost, and broaden access to essential services. AHRQ's broad programs of research bring practical, science-based information to medical practitioners and to consumers and other health care purchasers.
CDC (Centers for Disease Control & Prevention)
ChemIDplus: Covers chemical structure and nomenclature information. Full text. Provided by the National Library of Medicine.
Cochrane Library: Covers the effects of interventions in health care and evidence based medicine. Mostly full text. Provided by the MUSC Library.
DailyMed (National Library of Medicine): Covers information about currently marketed drugs. Contains the most recent drug labeling information from the Food and Drug Administration. Full text. Available from your MUSC Library through the National Library of Medicine. NLM regularly uploads this information from the FDA.
DIRLINE - Directory of Information Resources Online: Covers organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Citations and abstracts with some full text. Provided by the National Library of Medicine.
DIRLINE - Directory of Information Resources Online: Covers organizations, research resources, projects, and databases concerned with health and biomedicine. Citations and abstracts with some full text. Provided by the National Library of Medicine.
Doctor's Guide to the Internet
Drug Identifier from MUSCHealth (MUSC Drug Information): Allows one to search for drugs by a specific color, shape, and/or marking. A picture of drugs meeting the criteria are displayed.
Drug Infobase: This site lists pharmaceutical agents for which there is a web site or website in development. A generic name list and a brand name list are available.
Drug Information: from MEDLINE Plus,consists of MedMaster™ from the American Society of Health-system Pharmacists and a subset of the Natural Standard Herbs and Supplements.
Drug Information Association
Drug Shortages
Drugs@FDA: Drugs@FDA provides official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs and therapeutic biological products.
Electronic Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Evaluations: Orange Book identifies drugs on the market that have been approved on the basis of safety and efficacy requirements instituted in 1962. Although the bioequivalence ratings are not binding under generic substitution laws, its primary purpose is to provide information to states regarding generic drugs as acceptable as candidates for substitution formularies.
eMedicine: Covers clinical medicine. Full text.
IBIDS - International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements: IBIDS is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. Designed to assist the public, health care providers, educators and researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary supplements. Three versions of the database are available: the Full IBIDS Database, the IBIDS Consumer Database and the Peer Reviewed Citations Only.
Institute for Safe Medication Practices: This site includes medication safety alerts, forms for reporting errors to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices and the FDA, and self assessment tools.
Lexi-Comp: Lexi-Comp covers point-of-care drug information, including drug interactions and drug identification. Full text. Provided by the MUSC Library.
Medi-Lexicon: A pharmaceutical terminology database of over 20,000 terms; provides meanings of pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations.
Medscape: This web site provides a wealth of information for the practicing physician. It does require a one time registration but resources are available for free. If provides options for CME, MEDLINE optimized for physicians, and daily medical news.
Medwatch the FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program (U. S. Food and Drug Aministration): This site provides safety information on drugs and other medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. It includes online reporting forms for professionals and the general public. Links are provided to the regulations concerning mandatory reporting of problems by health professionals.
Merck Manuals Online Medical Library (Merck Research Laboratories)
MicroMedex: Healthcare Series: Micromedex includes clinical decision support databases and tools. These resources include information related to drugs, acute care, toxicology and patient education (CareNotes). Provided by the MUSC Library.
MUSC Hospital Formulary of Accepted Drugs
National Guideline Clearinghouse (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality): A public resource for evidence-based clinical practice guidelines. Summaries are available in a text format downloadable to Palm-based pdas.
National Institutes of Health
Natural Standard, Herbs and Supplements: Covers complementary and alternative medicine agents. A subset of the full Natural Standard Herbs and Supplements database.
Nuclear Pharmacy (College of Pharmacy, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences)
Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Pharmaceutical-Technology.com
RxList, the internet drug index
RXmed
Virtual Library Pharmacy