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Licensed Resources
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Access Medicine Drug Information
An A-Z list of drugs.  Includes both patient and provider information, and each drug monograph contains references.


AHFS Drug Information
The mission of AHFS Drug Information® is to provide an evidence-based foundation for safe and effective drug therapy. 

Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological basis of therapeutics, 10th ed.

Katzung's Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 9th ed.

The Merck Index 
A one-volume encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs and biologicals covering a wide range of compounds that have been selected on the basis of present or historic importance and interest.  Each monograph is a concise description of a single substance or a small group of closely related compounds. The information provided includes chemical, common and generic names, trademarks and their associated companies, Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Numbers, molecular formulas and weights, physical and toxicity data, therapeutic and commercial uses, citations to the chemical, biomedical and patent literature, and chemical structures. terms, and takes you directly to the relevant monographs. 

Tutorial: Using Merck Index to find a chemical structure


Micromedex Healthcare Series
MICROMEDEX publishes clinical decision support databases and tools. The MICROMEDEX® Healthcare Series provides a wide range of databases tailored
to meet the needs of healthcare professionals, including information related to 
drugs, acute care, toxicology, and patient education. 

Mosby's Drug Consult
A compilation of current, complete, and unbiased information on prescription pharmaceuticals.  Includes off-label indications & comparative tables, a keyword index, cost of therapy data, and supplier profile index. 

USP DI® Drug Information for the Health Care Professional, 25th ed.
A comprehensive collection of clinically relevant, established information about each drug included as well as a source for off-label use information, based upon best available evidence. 

USP DI® Advice for the Patient, 25th ed.
Designed to provide general answers to some patient questions as well as suggestions for the correct use of medicine. 

To locate the primary literature on drug and pharmaceutical topics, consult the major biomedical databases:

PubMed
Use nonproprietary or generic names when searching. 

BIOSIS Previews
Use nonproprietary or generic names when searching.

Toxline(Cambridge Scientific Abstracts, last 5 years + current year)
Toxline (National LIbrary of Medicine, 1900 - present)
Indexes journals, monographs, technical reports, theses, letters, meeting abstracts, conference papers, and reports in all areas of toxicology, including chemicals and pharmaceuticals, pesticides, environmental pollutants, and mutagens and teratogens. Produced by the US National Library of Medicine, information is drawn from a number of sources including Toxicity Bibliography and Developmental and Reproductive Toxicology. 

Free Resources

Review of Optometry 2002 Clinical Guide to Ophthalmic Drugs
Includes both prescription & over-the-counter drug information.  Check past issues for other articles on ophthalmic drugs.

Dictionary of Drugs
Searchable dictionary containing concise chemical data, structure diagrams and bibliographic information on over 40,000 drugs and pharmacological agents.  Coverage includes all currently marketed drugs, pharmacological tools, compounds in the later stages of clinical trials and pharmaceutical excipients. 

Pharma-Lexicon
Contains pharmaceutical acronyms and abbreviations and their meanings

Medscape DrugInfo
Search by drug or disease/condition. 

FDA New and Generic Drug Approvals: 1998-2004

Johns Hopkins Antibiotic Guide
Search by diagnosis, pathogen, antibiotic.

International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements 

Drug, supplements & herbal  information for patients
From MEDLINEplus