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Drug Information : Online Resources

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Databases

About Herbs, Botanicals & Other Products  - Provides evidence-based information about herbs, botanicals, supplements, and more.FREE 

Academic Onefile  - Source of peer-reviewed full-text scholarly content across the academic disciplines.

AccessMedicine - A collection of eBooks covering internal medicine, cardiology, genetics, pharmacy, diagnosis and management, basic sciences, patient care, and more.

Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations  - Also called the Electronic Orange BookFREE

BIOSIS Citation Index  - Life sciences and biomedical research covering pre-clinical and experimental research, methods and instrumentation, animal studies, and more. Coverage: 1926-

British Pharmacopeia - "The BP makes an important contribution to the role of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) in protecting public health by providing quality standards for UK pharmaceutical substances and medicinal products."

Chemistry Central  - Publishes high-quality peer-reviewed open access research in chemistry.FREE

ClinicalKey  - ClinicalKey includes the MDConsult database but with expanded content including hundreds of additional eBooks, eJournals, guidelines, videos, images, First Consult, Procedures Consult, and more.

DailyMed  - "Provides high quality information about marketed drugs" FREE 

Drug Digest  - noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site FREE

Drug Information Portal  - gateway to current drug information from NLMFREE

Drugpoints System  - Contains monographs of medications, arranged by family groupings.

Drugs.com  FREE 

Drugs@FDA - approved drug products FREE

DynaMed Plus (Note: This requires a new app)  - Evidence-based clinical reference tool for use at the point-of-care. 

Electronic Orange Book  - Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence EvaluationsFREE

EMBASE - A biomedical and pharmaceutical database indexing over 3,500 international journals in the following fields: drug research, pharmacology, pharmaceutics, toxicology, and more

Epocrates Online Premium  - Clinical drug database. Includes interactions, dosing calculators, formularies, alternative medicine, Pill IDs, and more.  

ePSS (Electronic Preventive Services Selector) - AHRQ's Electronic Preventive Services Selector FREE

Exam Master  - Provides practice tests for the following licensure and certification exams: USMLE, SPEX, NAPLEX and more. For PANCE/PANRE, contact the PA Dept.

Factiva  - general & business news 

Fingertip Formulary  - Provides formulary drug status for health plans in your area.FREE

Green Book : Animal Drugs@FDA  - Searchable database of approved drug products for animals.FREE

Henry Stewart Talks: Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection  - Audiovisual lectures by leading experts.

Japanese Accepted Names for Pharmaceuticals (JAN) - "This English Version of the Japanese Pharmacopoeia, Sixteenth Edition is published to meet the needs of the non-Japanese speaking people. When and if any discrepancy arises between the Japanese original and its English translation, the former is authentic."

Lexi-Comp Online  - Drug information tool. Includes Lexi-Interact (drug interaction module), Lexi-Drug ID (tablet and capsule identification), Lexi-CALC (medical calculators), I.V. Compatibility, and Lexi-Tox (point-of-care use for poisonings and drug overdoses).

LiverTox  - Provides up-to-date, comprehensive and unbiased information about drug induced liver injury caused by prescription and nonprescription drugs, herbals and dietary supplements.FREE

MediLexicon - dictionary of 85,000+ medical acronyms and abbreviations  FREE

MEDLINE (OVID)  - 1950-present via OVID

MEDLINE In-Process & Other Non-Indexed Citations (OVID)  - (formerly known as PreMEDLINE) via Ovid

Medscape  - Medscape from WebMD is a part of WebMD Health Professional Network that includes theHeart.org and eMedicine.com  FREE 

MICROMEDEX  - (not compatible with Firefox browser) includes DISEASEDEX, DRUGDEX, MARTINDALE, PDR, POISINDEX and others 

MICROMEDEX Neofax and Pediatrics Essential  - An evidence-based drug information, age and indication-specific drug-dosing calculators, and enteral formula nutritional information for the neonatal and pediatric populations. This solution helps to improve medication safety and efficacy in the care of t

Natural Medicines (Formerly Natural Standard)  - Evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies, including dietary supplements.

NYP Hospital Formulary 

Ovid -  A portal of resources including electronic journals, e-books, EMBASE, MEDLINE, and HAPI.

PDQ (Physician Data Query)  - NCI's Comprehensive Cancer Database FREE

Pillbox  - Rapid identification of unknown solid-dosage medications (tablets/capsules).FREE

PubMed  - Access over 21 million citations and abstracts covering fields of biomedicine and health.  FREE 

Reaxys - "Reaxys is a unique web-based chemistry database consisting of deeply excerpted compounds and related factual properties, reaction and synthesis information as well as bibliographic data, navigated and displayed via an actionable interface."

Science Citation Index  - A multidisciplinary database of bibliographic information indexed to be searched by subject, author, journal, and/or author address. 1900-present.

Science of Synthesis  - Provides a critical review of the synthetic methodology developed from the early 1800s to-date for the entire field of organic and organometallic chemistry.

ScienceDirect  - Search for peer-reviewed journals, articles, book chapters and open access content. 

SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts)  - Provides access to several Chemical Abstracts Service databases. First time users must register here from within the WCMC. 

Statista  - Statistics and studies portal providing you with access to relevant data from over 18,000 sources.

Summon (Cornell University Library)  - Find over 800 million items, including but not limited to journal articles. 

Taylor and Francis eJournals  - Now includes Taylor & Francis and Maney titles.

TRIP Database  - Clinical search tool designed to rapidly identify the highest quality clinical evidence for clinical practice.FREE 

UpToDate  - Online resource designed to answer the clinical questions that arise in daily practice. Mobile App and site available. 

VisualDx  - Aids in the identification of dermatologic, infectious, genetic, metabolic, nutritional and occupational diseases, benign and malignant growths, drug-induced conditions, and other injuries.

WHO Drug Information - "WHO drug information provides an overview of topics of current relevance relating to drug development and regulation. Latest lists of proposed and recommended International Nonproprietary Names for Pharmaceutical Substances (INN) are also included."