American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) - Professional association representing pharmacists practicing in hospitals, health maintenance organizations, long-term care facilities, home care, and other components of health care systems.
BioPharmaLink - Pharmaceutical and biotech companies, drugs and technologies, markets and specialties. Look up pharmaceuticals, biopharmaceuticals, diagnostics, therapies, technologies and other products. Look up companies and institutions active in the worldwide healtcare industry from development till commercialization in directory containing over 2500 companies. Search for drugs, technologies and services requested by companies: calls for collaboration, products or technologies for licensing or to buy. Look up news released directly from companies about their developments, technologies or news concerning alliances, partnership, new appointments, new markets or services.
BioSeeker Group - Business and competitive intelligence on the biotechnology and pharmaceutical industry. Publishes BSG BioNewsletter.
BioSpace - Biotech, biotechnology and pharmaceutical news, jobs, companies, stocks.
BLTC RESEARCH - Promotes paradise-engineering. Dedicated to abolishing the biological substrates of suffering - i.e., abolishing "physical" and "mental" pain altogether. See:
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines - Many drugs are too expensive for those in the developing world to buy. Other life-saving treatments are not available because manufacturers have abandoned their production because they were not considered profitable enough. The MSF Access to Essential Medicines Campaign is pushing to increase access to specific medicines.
Drug Store News -
Latest news from publications catering to the drug retailing industry.
DrugDigest - Evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options. Includes:
Drugs.com - Drug information, side effects and interactions, news and articles, drug interactions checker, pill identifier, drug image search, PDA software.
Drugs.com: Advanced Search - Search over 24,000 approved medications: Search by Drug Name/Brand, Search by Medical Condition, Search the careguide, Search for Drug Image (Use this facility to see what a particular tablet or capsule looks like), Search for interactions, Search the internet.
Drug Discovery Online - Feature stories, case studies, industry news, and newswire feeds related to the science and business of discovering new drugs.
Drug Information Association (DIA) - Pharmaceutical and related industries organization with 27,000 members worldwide. Provides forum for exchange of professional and career information among its members.
Drug Information Portal - Search for a drug by a name. Access ot over 12,000 drugs probvided by U.S. National Library of Medicine.
Drug Shortages - Information on current drug shortages as well as additional information on product recalls and warnings.
Drug Interactions Checker - Check your existing drug regimens for potential interactions with each other or with certain foods and supplements.
Drug InfoNet: Official Package Inserts - Official Package Insert information on pharmaceuticals for both health professionals and consumers, available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class.
Drug InfoNet: Patient Package Inserts - Information on pharmaceuticals for patients, in easy-to-understand notation from the pharmaceutical manufacturers available by brand name, generic name, manufacturer and therapeutic class.
DrugDigest - Health and medical information. Access reference materials on topics ranging from drug, vitamins, and herbs to breakthrough medical research and state-of-the-art disease management.
Drugs@FDA - Provides one place where you can search for official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs.
Drugscope - One of the UK's leading centers of expertise on drugs. Provides quality drug information, promotes effective responses to drug taking, undertakes research at local, national and international levels, advises on policy-making, encourages informed debate.
European Medicines Agency (EMA) - Agency of the European Union, located in London. The Agency is responsible for the scientific evaluation of medicines developed by pharmaceutical companies for use in the European Union.
FDA Consumer Updates - Official information from the Food and Drug Administration. Reports on current FDA activities to ensure that the products the agency regulates - food, human and animal drugs, medical devices, cosmetics, radiation-emitting products, biologics - are fit to us and provides additional information on various health topics.
FDAnews.com - News and analysis on drugs, medical devices, biologics and veterinary medicine.
Food and Drug Administration (FDA) - It is FDA's job to see that the food we eat is safe and wholesome, the cosmetics we use won't hurt us, the medicines and medical devices we use are safe and effective, and that radiation-emitting products such as microwave ovens won't do us harm. This site provides information for those interested in the many products FDA regulates and in the agency's responsibilities. Also see FDA's FDA: Drugs and Laws Enforced by the FDA.
Green Book - The Generic Animal Drug and Patent Restoration act requires that each sponsor of an approved animal drug must submit to the FDA certain information regarding patents held for the animal drug or its method of use. The Act requires that this information, as well as a list of all animal drug products approved for safety and effectiveness, be made available to the public. This list must be updated monthly under the provisions of the Act. The list, known as the "Green Book," was first published in January 1989. Updates have been added monthly since then. Each January, the list is published in its entirety.
Medi Lexicon - A dictionary of over 70,000 medical, pharmaceutical, biomedical & healthcare acronyms and abbreviations.
MedWatch - Safety information on drugs and medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Merck Index - The Merck Index has been the go-to reference for generations of professionals looking for precise, comprehensive information on chemicals, drugs, and biologicals.
Merck Manuals - A series of healthcare books for medical professionals and consumers.
Merck Manual Home Edition - The Home Edition transforms the language of the Merck professionals' version into commonly used English while retaining the vital information about diseases, diagnosis, prevention, and treatment.
National Association of Boards of Pharmacy (NABPí) - Professional association representing state boards of pharmacy in all 50 United States, the District of Columbia, Guam, Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, New Zealand, nine Canadian Provinces, and four Australian states.
National Electronic Library for Medicines (NeLM) - The largest medicines information portal for healthcare professionals in the UK National Health Service (NHS). It aims to promote the safe, effective and efficient use of medicines. This free service has been in operation since 1998 (originally as Druginfozone) and is updated daily. The site has a wide range of information products, including news, evidence-based reviews on drugs and drug therapy and health promotion material.
National Immunization Program (NIP) - NIP provides leadership for the planning, coordination, and conduct of immunization activities nationwide inthe U.S.
National Vaccine Information Center (NVIC) - National organization advocating reformation of the mass vaccination system. Dedicated to the prevention of vaccine injuries and deaths through public education. Support the availability of all preventive health care options, including vaccines, and the right of consumers to make educated, voluntary health care choices.
No Free Lunch - Health care providers - physicians, pharmacists, nurses, dentists, among others - who believe that pharmaceutical promotion should not guide clinical practice, and that over-zealous promotional practices can lead to bad patient care. Encourages health care practitioners to provide high quality care based on unbiased evidence rather than on biased pharmaceutical promotion.
Oxycodone - An opioid analgesic medication synthesized from opium-derived thebaine. It was developed in 1916 in Germany, as one of several new semi-synthetic opioids with several benefits over the older traditional opiates and opioids; morphine, diacetylmorphine (heroin) and codeine.
PDR.net - Providing medical, drug and disease management information including the Physicians' Desk Reference.
Pharmaceutical Online - Covers all pharmaceutical process-related issues and unit operations, including: mixing, blending, crystallization, distillation, solvent recovery, formulation, extraction, centrifugation, drying, tabletting, materials handling, safety equipment, cleanroom operations, new dosage forms, separations, filling, packaging, new reaction chemistry, plant engineering, energy issues, water and wastewater technologies, software, scientific record-keeping, engineering, and labeling.
Pharmiweb.com - Industry-sponsored portal for the pharmaceutical sector.
PharmGKB - An integrated resource about how variation in human genes leads to variation in our response to drugs. The NIH PGRN currently funds clinical and basic pharmacokinetic and pharmacogenomic research in the cardiovascular, pulmonary, cancer, pathways, metabolic and transporter domains.
RxList (Internet Drug Index) - A leading online drug database that lists over 4,000 pharmaceuticals and other medicines, with extensive information on 600 entries and links from over 10,000 Web sites and search engines seeking drug information.
United States Pharmacopeia (USP) - An official public standards–setting authority for all prescription and over–the–counter medicines and other health care products manufactured or sold in the United States.
World Wide Web Virtual Library: Pharmacy - Sections include Pharmacy Schools, Community Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Companies, Hospital Pharmacies, Pharmacy Organizationss, Journal/Book Publishers, Government Sites, Pharmacy Jobs, Pharmacy Databases, Pharmacy Listservs/Newsgroups, Pharmacy Conferences, and more.
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