Pharmaceutical Resources

Antibiotics Utilization Guidelines, Medical College at the University of Wisconsin : http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/AntibioticGuide.html

Both a drug formulary and educational tool for antibiotic use at the Medical College. Promotes cost-effective use of antibiotics.

Chemical Industry Institute of Toxicology: http://www.ciit.org/

CIIT is located in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina. Founded in 1974, CIIT is a not-for-profit toxicology research institute dedicated to providing an improved scientific basis for understanding and assessing the potential adverse effects of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and consumer products on human health. CIIT is supported by 36 industrial organizations.

Council on Family Health: http://www.cfhinfo.org/

The Council's services include educational campaigns and materials, and addresses the safe and proper use of medicines. This information includes topics such as reading the medicine label, children’s medicine dosing, drug interactions and several others. Of note, the site features a Media Resource Center, complete with current news about fathers caring for their sick children and Americans caring for their loved ones.

DrugDB http://pharminfo.com/drugdb/db_mnu.html

A database of drug information with links to articles and specific drug resources; browsable by generic and trade names.

Drug Formulary, University of Wisconsin : http://www.intmed.mcw.edu/drug.html

Searchable drug formulary database including cost comparisons.

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ECPHIN and ECDIN Chemical Database : http://ulisse.ei.jrc.it/

The ECDIN chemical database (open to all), and the ECPHIN pharmaceuticals database (registred users only).

ECDIN contains indetification, chemico-physical parameters, production and usage, human health and toxicological parameters of ~120,000 chemicals.

ECPHIN contains complete products information for the currently licenced medicinal products (~100,000) in the European Union including price in national currency. Registration is free for medical and pharmaceutical professionals.

The service is provided by the European Technical Office for Medicinal Products (ETOMEP) of the European Commission - Joint Research Centre Ispra (Varese) Italy.

ExPASy : http://expasy.hcuge.ch/

Protein and nucleic acid sequences

Internet Self-Assessment in Pharmacology (ISAP): http://www.med.umn.edu/ISAP

Pharmacologic data on hundreds of drugs plus lectures in pharmacology. Free service to anyone in the .edu domain and to any health professionals who might have a good reason to use it.

Iowa Drug Information Service : http://www.uiowa.edu/~idis

National toxicology Program : http://ntp-server.niehs.nih.gov/

The National Toxicology Program (NTP), headquartered at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) in Research Triangle Park, NC, was established as a cooperative effort within the Public Health Service to coordinate toxicology research and testing activities within the Department of Health and Human Services, to provide information about potentially toxic chemicals to health, regulatory, and research agencies and the public, and to strengthen the science base in toxicology. The three NTP participating agencies are the NIH's NIEHS, the FDA's National Center for Toxicological Research, and the CDC's National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health.

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Pharmaceutical Information Network : http://www.pharminfo.com/pin_hp.html

PharmInfoNet is a high-volume pharmaceutical information resource on the Internet World Wide Web, It serves as a recognized entry point to access high-quality independent assessments of therapeutics and advances in new drug development.

Pharmacology Glossary : http://med-amsa.bu.edu/Pharmacology/Programmed/glossary.html

From the Department of Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics, Boston University School of Medicine

Physicians' GenRx : http://www.mosby.com/

Physicians' GenRx maintains a drug index. Drugs can be found and accessed by FDA (generic) name, by brand names, and by category. In addition, specialized category terms are maintained, including HCFA reimbursement codes, FDA approval date, patent expiration, FDA's evaluation of new molecular entities, and relative sales volumes. This information is by subscription ($) only.

The Protein Data Bank : http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/

Three-dimensional structure database

Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) : http://web.frontier.net/MEDMarket/tenants/raps/raps.html

The Regulatory Affairs Professionals Society (RAPS) is an international organization of health care regulatory affairs professionals. Founded in 1976, RAPS has grown to over 6,000 members worldwide, serving individuals in the pharmaceutical, medical device, biologic, biotechnology, and related areas. The Society's goals are to facilitate the exchange of ideas, to foster cooperation among regulatory professionals in industry and government, and to provide continuing education in regulatory affairs.

RinfoCan : http://www.islandnet.com/~rinfocan

RxList : http://www.rxlist.com/

A free, searchable, database of more than 4,000 prescription and over the counter (US) drug products on the web. The search engine employs 'fuzzy' logic which enables one to often find a name even when it is misspelled. Presently the output is very simple with generic name, brand name, and therapeutic category being the only fields.