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AHFS Drug Information
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An unbiased, evaluated source for drug information from the American Society of Health System Pharmacists (in STAT!Ref)

Resources for finding relevant drug information

Cochrane Library This link opens in a new window

Consists of the latest, up-to-date full-text of all reviews and protocols prepared by the Cochrane Collaboration, an international review group dedicated to preparing and maintaining evidenced-based materials on clinical topics.
Daily med This link opens in a new window
This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.
Dietary Supplement Label Database This link opens in a new window

The Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD) from the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) captures all information printed on labels of dietary supplement products sold in the United States.

Drugs@FDA
Official information about FDA approved drugs and therapeutic biological products.

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Search by Drug Name, Active Ingredient, or Application Number

Drug Information Portal This link opens in a new window
Free from the National Library of Medicine - provides a portal to current drug information for over 15,000 drugs from NLM and other government sources.

Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation by Alicia B. Forinash; Roger K. Freeman; Craig V. Towers; Gerald G. Briggs
ISBN: 9781496349620
Publication Date: 2017

Epocrates This link opens in a new window

Gahart's 2022 Intravenous Medications: A Handbook for Nurses and Health Professionals by Betty L. Gahart; Adrienne R. Nazareno; Meghan Ortega,
ISBN: 9780323825092
Publication Date: 2022
Goodman and Gilman's the Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics by Randa Hilal-Dandan; Bjorn Knollman; Laurence Brunton
Call Number: QV 4 G653p 2011 (Reserve)
ISBN: 9781259584732
Publication Date: 2018
12th ed. (2011) on Reserve; 13th ed. (2018) available online

LiverTox
Medication Safety in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
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Fully understand the toxicological effects of prescription and OTC drugs on pregnant women and breastfed children.

Medline Ovid This link opens in a new window

is the premier biomedical database from the National Library of Medicine searchable from 1946 to the present. It provides coverage in the areas of allied health, biological and physical sciences, humanities and information science as they relate to medicine and health care, communication disorders, population biology, and reproductive biology.
MedlinePlus This link opens in a new window
MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. It provides links to reliable health information for consumers and health professionals. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.
MedlinePlus en Español This link opens in a new window
Spanish language version of MedlinePlus. MedlinePlus is the National Library of Medicine's web site for consumer health information. It provides links to reliable health information for consumers and health professionals. MedlinePlus has extensive information from the National Institutes of Health and other trusted sources on over 650 diseases and conditions. There are also lists of hospitals and physicians, a medical encyclopedia and a medical dictionary, health information in Spanish, extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs, health information from the media, and links to thousands of clinical trials. MedlinePlus is updated daily.
MedlinePlus: Drug, Supplements, and Herbal Information This link opens in a new window
Prescription and over-the-counter medication information is from MedMaster, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP) and USP DI® Advice for the Patient® , a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).
For additional drug information, see the MedlinePlus drug therapy topic pages. Information on herbs and supplements from Natural Standard©.
Micromedex This link opens in a new window

Unbiased, referenced information about drugs, toxicology, diseases, acute care, and alternative medicine
Natural Medicines This link opens in a new window

authoritative resource on dietary supplements, natural medicines, and complementary alternative and integrative therapies
Nature Journals Online This link opens in a new window
Full-text for selected journals published by the Nature Publishing Group
OldMedline This link opens in a new window

Contains citations published from 1946 through 1965 in the Cumulated Index Medicus and covers the fields of medicine, preclinical sciences, and allied health sciences. Unlike MEDLINE, this file contains no abstracts nor MeSH heading (MH) field data from NLM's current controlled vocabulary.
Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations This link opens in a new window

The Electronic Orange Book is updated daily as new generic approvals occur to provide timely consumer information on generic drugs. identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and related patent and exclusivity information.

Pharmacology World
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A video series to help master the key concepts of pharmacology. It covers all major drug classes and include: mechanism of action, key pharmacokinetics, major therapeutic uses, and common and serious adverse effects. It incorporates relevant physiology, pathophysiology and biochemistry.

PubMed (Medline) This link opens in a new window
The National Library of Medicine's interface to Medline, the premier biomedical database

Red Book 2021-2024: Report of the Committee on Infectious Diseases, 32nd edition by David W. Kimberlin (Editor); Elizabeth Barnett (Associate Editor); Ruth Lynfield (Associate Editor); Mark H. Sawyer (Associate Editor)
ISBN: 9781610025218
Publication Date: 2021

SciFinder (Chemical Abstracts) This link opens in a new window
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Provides comprehensive indexing of chemical literature from 1907-present
Scopus This link opens in a new window

an abstracts and citations database of peer-reviewed literature. It allows for discovery of articles, as well as cited reference searching (number of times an article has been cited). It indexes nearly 23,000 peer-reviewed journals (including open access journals), trade journals, book series, conference proceedings, and pa-tents. Scopus is multidisciplinary, covering life and health sciences, agriculture, environment, engineering, technology, social sciences, landscape architecture, urban planning, and more.
Springer Nature Experiments This link opens in a new window

Experiments is a new research solution developed by Springer Nature to connect researchers with the most relevant and important protocols and methods to support their research projects.

We are bringing together the largest available collection of protocols and methods proven to create results, with content from: Nature Methods, Nature Protocols, SpringerProtocols and Protocols Exchange.
STAT!Ref This link opens in a new window

Full-text of more than 80 medical and nursing texts
Scopus This link opens in a new window

an abstracts and citations database of peer-reviewed literature. It allows for discovery of articles, as well as cited reference searching (number of times an article has been cited). It indexes nearly 23,000 peer-reviewed journals (including open access journals), trade journals, book series, conference proceedings, and pa-tents. Scopus is multidisciplinary, covering life and health sciences, agriculture, environment, engineering, technology, social sciences, landscape architecture, urban planning, and more.

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