Directory: Pharmaceutical [Lincolnshire Post-Polio Network]

Pharmaceutical

Pharmaceutical Index

International
Raymot's International Generic-Brand Dictionary | Drug Information Association
UK
PharmNews | IDIS World Medicines | World Standard Drug Database (UK)
The British National Formulary
USA
Food and Drug Administration | PharmInfoNet | RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Onhealth USP Drug Database

International
Raymot's International Generic-Brand Dictionary | Drug Information Association

Raymot's International Generic-Brand Dictionary
http://www.powerup.com.au/~rmottare/drugs.htm

Very useful site especially for those living in Australia, UK, Canada and South Africa. Cross references drug brand names of CNS, Psychotropics and pain medications marketed in those countries with US equivalents. Here is the author's description of his site...

My online International Generic-Brand Drug Dictionary of Psychotropics, Analgesics and CNS Drugs now has:

A comprehensive list of (almost) all drugs in these classes, from USA, UK, Australia, Canada, South Africa, with cross referencing.
Generic names of most drugs linked to relevant information and monologues and elsewhere on the net.
All Brand names for most drugs in the countries listed above.
Brand and Generic indexes (eg. click on a South African Brand, and in no time you'll be reading about the generic on some of best internet sites!)
Arranged in Classes, eg. Antidepressants, Anxiolytics, etc.
Also b-blockers; NSAIDs, Antihistamines, Antiemetics.

Drug Information Association
http://www.diahome.org/index.htm: "The DIA (Drug Information Association) is a non-profit, multi-disciplinary, member-driven scientific association with a membership of over 20,000. These members are primarily from the regulatory agencies, academia, contract support organizations, pharmaceutical, biological and device industry, and from other health care organizations."
The full text of the Drug Information Journal from 1996 onwards is available online in Acrobat PDF format.

UK
PharmNews | IDIS World Medicines | World Standard Drug Database (UK)
The British National Formulary

PharmNews
http://pharmnews.com/: Worldwide pharmaceutical news updated daily.

IDIS World Medicines
http://www.idis.co.uk/: IDIS World Medicines is a global supplier of internationally licensed medicines to pharmacists, doctors, veterinary surgeons and other health practitioners.
Note for UK Residents. It is our understanding that medicines not generally available in the UK can be prescribed as follows. Your GP writes either an NHS or private script for the medicine and your pharmacist can then order it through IDIS who specialise in importing medicines on a named patient basis. While your GP cannot prescribe products whose use is prohibited in the UK, he or she can prescribe products which are not licensed for use in the UK. Licensing means the manufacturer will take some responsibility for the product as long as its use is within the guidelines laid down in the product's data sheet or summary of product characteristics. The pharmacist takes the responsibility for making sure that the requested product is fit for the purpose intended, whether it is licensed or not. Your GP, or any other person qualified to prescribe medicines under UK Law, takes the final responsibility whether the product is licensed or not. Thus, while your GP is capable of prescribing a product not licensed in the UK, he or she will quite rightly need to be convinced that the prescription is in the patients best interests.

World Standard Drug Database (UK)
http://www.safescript.com/: "SafeScript have developed the World Standard Drug Database. This database relates knowledge about drug products and their ingredients to knowledge about individual patients held in (e.g.) Read Coded format in electronic clinical computer systems. Use of this database integrated into such clinical patient notes systems allows optimisation of prescribing including intelligent flagging of contraindications and interactions etc, to help reduce prescriber errors. In other words this is a remarkable tool for preventing doctors making mistakes in prescribing."
The public version of the database available at this site is likely to be primarily for demonstration. It will mainly be of interest to UK residents.

The British National Formulary
http://www.bnf.org/
Alternate http://www.bnf.org.uk/: The BNF is a joint publication of the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. It is published under the authority of a Joint Formulary Committee which comprises representatives of the two professional bodies and of the Department of Health. The BNF aims to provide doctors, pharmacists and other healthcare professionals with sound up-to-date information about the use of medicines. The British National Formulary Number 39 (March 2000) is freely accessible at their web site.

USA
Food and Drug Administration | PharmInfoNet | RxList - The Internet Drug Index
Onhealth USP Drug Database

Food and Drug Administration
http://www.fda.gov/default.htm: See especially the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) section on drugs which contains a wealth of documentation.

PharmInfoNet
http://www.pharminfo.com/
Currently Unavailable - 28th April 2001: Pharmaceutical Information Network. Searchable drug database. DrugFAQs etc.

RxList - The Internet Drug Index
http://www.rxlist.com/: Primarily a searchable drug database.

Onhealth USP Drug Database
http://www.onhealth.com/ch1/resource/pharmacy/0,1015,,00.htm: Reasonably comprehensive Drug Database. Information well-presented. Drugs are indexed alphabetically and the above link points to the "A" index which also contains links to the other indexes.

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Last modification: 7th January 2002
Last information content change: 30th January 2001