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AHFS drug information.

[available off-campus]

American Society of Health-System Pharmacists

DailyMed Current Medication Information

National Library of Medicine.

DailyMed provides information about marketed medications drugs, including FDA approved labels (package inserts).

Drugs@FDA

US Food and Drug Administration

This catalog of FDA approved drug products includes approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs, drug approval letters, labels, and review packages.

Health Source - Consumer Edition

[available off-campus]

"This resource provides access to nearly 300 full text, consumer health periodicals, including American Fitness, Better Nutrition, Harvard Health Letter, HealthFacts, Men's Health, Muscle & Fitness, Prevention, Vegetarian Times, and many others. In addition to full text, indexing and abstracts are provided for more than 300 periodicals." Also provides access to patient ed materials and "Cliical Pharmacology". Provided by the Boston Regional Library System.

Medications and ocular side effects database

Transitions Optical, Inc.

Includes both prescription and non-prescription medications and classifies them into three categories: "Drugs That May Affect Quantity of Vision", "Drugs That May Affect Quality of Vision", and "Drugs That Are Implicated in (a) Ocular Diseases and (b) Disorders."

MedlinePlus: Drug Information

"Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through MedMaster, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP)."

NLM Drug Information Portal.

Provides the public, healthcare professionals, and researchers with a gateway to current and accurate drug information from the National Library of Medicine and to other key government agencies. Covers over 12,000 drugs from the time that they are in clinical trials, through their FDA approval, and then on to the marketplace.

Ophthalmic drug facts :ODF.

[available off-campus]

Bartlett, Jimmy D.

PDRHealth : Physicians' desktop reference.

"PDRHealth is the consumer web portal of the Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR)... The PDRHealth site offers consumer-friendly explanations of disease states and conditions as well as the safe and effective use of prescription and non-prescription drugs as well as herbal medicines."

Physicians' desk reference :PDR.

Description based on: 29th ed. (1975).