Pharmaceutical Resources on the Internet
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Databases Available to Everyone
Hazdat (Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database)
PubMed The Entrez PubMed interface allows you to search for biomedical citations in MedLine, produced by the National Library of Medicine, or for molecular biology information on nucleotide sequences, protein sequences, macromolecular structures, or whole genomes from databases maintained by The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI). Use the drop-down menu to select your database, then search by keyword. In PubMed, the MeSH Browser feature allows you to search by Medical Subject Headings. Use the Single Citation Matcher to quickly find a citation even if you have incomplete information; type in as much (or as little) information as you have all on one search screen, then do the search. Journal Browser lets you search for a specific journal; look here also to find links to publisher Web sites for over 600 journals (some provide free full-text of articles cited in PubMed). Use Clinical Queries if you want a very specific search for citations that deal with therapy, diagnosis, etiology, or prognosis.To combine searches, click on "History" beneath the search box; your searches are saved there for one hour.
TOXNET: Toxicology Data
Network
Toxnet, a product of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to a series of databases containing toxicology data; studies,
reports, and bibliographic information on toxicology; information
about toxic releases, and chemical information that includes
nomenclature, identification, and structure (structure searches
require CHIME software).
Drug Development and Evaluation
CenterWatch : Clinical
Trials Listing Service
Produced by CenterWatch, a division of the Medical Economics Company.
The site includes listings for current clinical trials and National
Institutes of Health studies, news and profiles of pharmaceutical
industries (with links to company Web sites), and listings of recent
FDA drug approvals.
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office Database
FDA Drug Information Pathfinder
ClinicalTrials.gov
ClinicalTrials.gov, developed by the National Library of Medicine for
the National Institutes of Health, allows visitors to search or browse
for information about ongoing clinical research studies. You can
browse by disease or condition or by sponsoring agency, including the
National Institutes of Health, Federal Agencies, Industry, or
University/Organization. The Focused Search option allows you to
request studies that include specific criteria, for example, studies
on a particular disease or condition, in a specific location, or a
particular trial phase. The site also features a variety of patient
resources that explain about clinical trials, as well as links to
consumer drug information.
Drug Information
Drug Information:
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Includes information on new prescription drug approvals, consumer
drug information, Over-the-counter drugs, Drug Safety and Side
Effects, Public Health Alerts and Warning Letters.
Merck Manual
of Diagnosis and Therapy
Full text of the 17th edition of the Merck Manual, edited by Mark H.
Beers, M.D. and Robert Berkow, M.D., is available courtesy of Merck
& Co., Inc. The Manual is searchable and includes hyperlinks to
tables, figures, and relevant parts of other chapters.
HealthWeb: Pharmacy
& Pharmacology
Vicki Killion, a health sciences librarian at Purdue University, has
compiled the Pharmacy & Pharmacology subject area of HealthWeb.
The site features links to a plethora of suggested Internet resources
in categories that include Research, Reference, Education, and
Pharmacy Practice.
RxList: The Internet Drug
Index
Visitors to the RxList.com can search or browse for generic and
tradename drugs and retrieve information drawn from the 1998 edition
of Mosby's GenRx. Information retrieved includes indications,
clinical pharmacology, adverse effects and warnings, references, and
patient information.
International
Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS)
database
The IBIDS database, produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements
(ODS) of the National Institutes of Health, includes references to
"published, international, scientific literature on dietary
supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals."
DrugDigest.com
Includes easy to read information on drugs, vitamins, herbs, health
conditions, treatment, an "Ask the Pharmacist" service, and
the latest research news drawn from Reuter's news releases.
DrugDigest.com is operated by yourPharmacy, a subsidiary service of
Express Script, Inc.
Electronic Journals
Biomedical
Journals List: Ebling Library Most for UW-Madison users only.
Most of these journals are available only to UW-Madison faculty,
students, or staff, or to the general public if they are using
computer workstations in campus libraries. This list includes
peer-reviewed or refereed journals in the health sciences.
All E-journals at
UW-Madison (All Subject Areas included)
Most for UW-Madison users
only. A listing of electronic journals that UW-Madison Libraries subscribe
to. Includes full-text research journals, popular journals, and a few
newspapers. Most of these journals are available only to UW-Madison
faculty, students, or staff, or to the general public if they are
using computer workstations in campus libraries.
Funding Opportunities
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
(AHRQ) NOTE: Formerly the Agency for Healthcare Policy and Research
lLists funding opportunities available through AHRQ.
Centers for
Disease Control and Prevention Funding Opportunities
Community of Science
"UW-Madison campus gateway to COS databases to include: Commerce
Business Daily, Federal Register, NIH, USDA, and NSF grants awarded;
and, expertise at other U.S. universities."
GrantsNet : Department of
Health and Human Services
Information on applying for a U.S. Department of Health and Human
Services grant.
GrantSelect UW-Madison users
only
Available to UW-Madison Faculty, Students, and Staff. GrantSelect
includes information on over 10,000 research grants "more than
4,000 federal, state, and local governments, commercial organizations,
associations, and private foundations. Funding programs listed include
all academic disciplines..." Grants in the database are available
to individuals or organizations.
National Science
Foundation:Grants and Awards
NSF's site includes funding opportunities, forms, guidelines for
submitting proposals, and award data on projects funded since
1989.
Funding Opportunities:
National Institutes of Health
Includes current funding opportunities; NIH Guide for Grants and
Contracts (lists and links to publications posted on the Website of
the NIH Office of Extramural Research); Award data, CRISP Database
(Computer Retrieval of Information on Scientific Projects - a
"searchable database of federally funded biomedical research
projects conducted at universities, hospitals, and other research
institutions", and much, much more.
UW-Madison Grants Information Center
History of Pharmacy
A Brief
History of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
Gallery
of Nostrums
This section, recently added to CDER's Web site, provides an
historical overview of the Center and of the people and events that
contributed to the establishment of the CDER as it is today. The
exhibit features numerous black and white photographic images of
individuals and laboratories associated with CDER since the late
1880s. Also included is an historical timeline of drug regulation in
the U.S. from 1820, when the U.S. Pharmacopeia was established, up to
1997. The Gallery of Nostrums is an exhibit of nostrums (or patent
medicines) such as snake oil, Mr. Bonker's Egyptian Oil, and Drs.
Mixers' Cancer and Scrofula Syrup.
American
Institute of the History of Pharmacy
University of Wisconsin - Madison Pharmacy Department
The
Pharmaceutical Century: Ten Decades of Drug Discovery
The Pharmaceutical Century exhibit, presented at the American
Chemical Society Web site, details the history of pharmaceutical
discoveries from 1800 to "The Next Pharmaceutical Century".
The site Includes sections on Patents and Potions; Salving With
Science; Antibiotics and Isotopes; Prescriptions and Polio; Anodynes
and Estrogens; Chemistry, Cancer, and Ecology; Aids, Arteries, and
Engineering; Harnessing Genes, Recasting Flesh; Organization
Portraits: Companies and Agencies; and the future.
Legislation, Regulation, and Standards
Center for Drug Evaluation and
CDER provides a wide range of information on drug regulation and
testing, new prescription drug approvals, over-the-counter drug
information, consumer information, public health alerts, and
information on drug safety and side effects. The site also includes
full-text of:
Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (the Orange Book), which is searchable or available as a downloadable data file; and
Data files for the National Drug Code (NDC) Directory, which includes prescription drugs and a few selected OTC products.
Code
of Federal Regulations 21
This site allows you to search one or any number of volumes of the
Code from 1996-1999. The 1998 and 1999 editions of the Code of Federal
Regulations can also be browsed.
Federal
Register
Full-text of the Federal Register is available from 1994-2001
(Volumes 59-66) at the National Archives and Records Administration
Web site.
Food and Drug Administration
(FDA)
FDA's site is organized into the following categories:
| Food: (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) Includes dietary supplements and food additives) |
| Biologics (Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research) |
| Human Drugs (Center for Drug Evaluation and Research) |
| Cosmetics (Center for Food Safety and Applied Nutrition) |
| Toxicology Research (National Center for Toxicological Research) |
| Medical Devices and Radiological Health (Center for Devices and Radiological Health) |
| Medwatch: The FDA Medical Products Reporting Program . |
Recently, the FDA has added a section for consumers on Buying Medicines & Medical Products
Online . Visitors can also access FDA publications such as FDA
Consumer, FDA Medical Bulletins, and Annual Adverse Drug Experience
Report. The site is also organized by intended audience; for example,
the Information for
Health Professionals Section includes sections on Clinical Trials
and Human Subject Protection, and Drug Control, Scheduling, and
Addiction Treatment.
Center for Food Safety and
Applied Nutrition (CFSAN)
A division of the Food and Drug Administration, CFSAN has
responsibility to oversee food safety, dietary supplements, and
cosmetics in the U.S. Latest public health advisories and warnings
regarding drugs, foods or cosmetics are posted at the site.
FDA News and
Publications
Publications listed at the site include FDA Enforcement Report, FDA
Backgrounder, FDA Consumer magazine, press releases, major speeches,
and talk papers. Visitors to the site can browse or search back issues
of these publications, or search for information at a specific FDA
center.
Full-text state
statutes and legislation on the Internet
"This meta-index gathers links to Web, gopher, telnet, and ftp
sites that contain the full text of state statutes, state
constitutions, and other legislative resources. Of course, results of
your searches depend on what each state has made available, and each
state offers a different searching mechanism. Some entries have been
annotated, particularly where instructions are necessary (as in the
case of telnet sessions, or when a certain plug-in is required for
viewing). There is also a supplementary page with links to resources
related to state legislation, such as executive orders and
administrative rules." Copyright Internet Scout Project,
1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
THOMAS: Legislative Information on
the Internet
"...Thomas, the US Library of Congress legislative information
service that has become, quite simply, the largest disseminator of
national legislative information in the world. Among its offerings are
bill summaries & status, full text of bills, major legislation
enacted into law, the Congressional Record and CR Index, Congressional
Committee information, Congressional directory information,
information about the legislative process, and a selection of
historical documents." Copyright Internet Scout Project,
1994-2000. http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
Wisconsin State
Legislature
Search full-text of Legislative activity by session, including Acts,
Bills and Resolutions. Also available is the Wisconsin Administrative
Code and Register, Wisconsin statutes, and much more.
USP - The United States
Pharmacopeia
"The United States Pharmacopeia (USP), is sanctioned by the FDA
as an agency that officially establishes standards for the quality of
medications and health care technologies. The USP site contains
information on standards development for drugs and dosage (including a
searchable USP Reference Standards Catalog), a practitioners reporting
network including information on medication errors and drug quality
reports, and information about USP products and publications. USP is
highlighted, however, by its Drug Information section, which contains:
Standard Elements, a searchable and browsable database of
descriptions, precautions, and side effects of over 750 generic drugs;
medication counseling behavior guidelines; Quality Review, a bimonthly
case studies review; and Just Ask!, a set of consumer brochures on
proper medicine use, accidental poisoning, and understanding
medications." Review Copyright of the Internet Scout Project, 1994-2000.
http://scout.cs.wisc.edu/
Orange Book
(Approved Drug Products With Therapeutic Equivalence
Evaluations)
JCAHO: Joint Commission on
Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations
Click on "Health Care Organizations and Professionals" on
the toolbar at the bottom of the main page to get information on
accreditation standards for ambulatory care, hospitals, long term
care, behavior health care, home care,and medical records review.
JCAHO also features a Directory of Accredited Healthcare Organizations
which can be searched by geographic area, city, title of organization,
type of organization, current status, or accreditation decision.
The Practice of Pharmacy
Compounding
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) maintains this page to clarify
Section 127, Application of Federal Law to Practice of Pharmacy
Compounding (FDA Modernization Act of 1997). Includes Guidelines for
Industry, Federal Register notices, Regulations, and Public Comments
regarding the new regulations.
Pharmacy Licensing:
Wisconsin Department of Regulation and Licensing
Listservs
Virtual Library: Pharmacy
Listservs
Includes listservs, discussion groups, and mailing lists.
Medical/Drug News: Current Information
HealthSCOUT
HealthScout provides articles about the latest medical news, which
are based on journal articles and interview with medical
experts.
Medscape
Registration is required; however, the voluminous amount of
information at this Web site makes it worthwhile. Medscape features
current medical news; Treatment Updates; Clinical Management; Practice
Guidelines; Conference Summaries and Conference Schedules; Journal
Room; Exam Room;Library; Patient Resources; and Managed Care. Medscape
also publishes a free electronic newsletter, Medpulse, that features
the latest medical news. Medscape's Pharmacology page, edited by
Jane S. Ricciuti, RPh, MS., features news on drug treatments and
pharmacology, as well as articles about pharmacy-related
subjects.
FDA News and
Publications
Publications listed at the site include FDA Enforcement Report, FDA
Backgrounder, FDA Consumer magazine, press releases, major speeches,
and talk papers. Visitors to the site can browse or search back issues
of these publications, or search for information at a specific FDA
center.
FDC Report Highlights
| Pink Sheet | Prescription Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology |
| Tan Sheet | Nonprescription Pharmaceuticals and Nutritionals |
| Blue Sheet | Health Policy and Biomedical Research |
| Gold Sheet | Quality Control Reports |
| Rose Sheet | Toiletries, Fragrances, and Skincare |
| Silver Sheet | Monthly report on design, compliance and quality control issues affecting the medical device and diagnostics industries |
| Gray Sheet | Medical Devices, Diagnostics and Instrumentation |
Metasites and Subject Directories
Martindale's Health Science Guide 2000: The "Virtual" Pharmacy Center : Pharmacy, Pharmacology, and Clinical Pharmacology & Toxicology
Medical Matrix
Requires registration. Medical Matrix features an extensive list
of links to clinical Internet resources.
MedWeb
MedWeb, maintained by the Robert W. Woodruff Health Sciences Center
Library of Emory University, provides links to Web sites that cover a
wide-range of topics in the biomedical science field.
INFOMINE: Scholarly Internet
Resource Collections
The INFOMINE collection, developed for academic faculty, staff, and
researchers by librarians at the University of California, can be
searched by keyword, or browsed by subject, keyword, or title. Broad
subject areas include Biology, Agricultural, and Medicine, Social
Sciences and Humanities, and the Physical Sciences, Engineering,
Mathematics.
Scout Reports (From the
Internet Scout Project)
Pharmaceutical Industry
Drug Information
Association
Drug Store News
Reports on the latest news from the pharmaceutical industry. The site
includes links to Suppliers, Retailers, Wholesalers, and Trade
Associations For Pharmacists.
Consumer Healthcare Products
Association (CHPA)
Pharmaceutical Research &
Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)
Formerly known as the Nonprescription Drug Manufacturers Association
(NDMA), the PhRMa.org Web site that includes annual reports, industry
profiles, current research, and news on 100 U.S. Pharmaceutical
companies. Select the "Membership" section to retrieve a
list of member pharmaceutical companies and a link to their
homepage.
Yahoo! Pharmaceutical Companies
Pharmacoeconomics
PHARMACOECONOMICS ISPOR: International
Society for Pharmacoeconomics and Outcomes Research
ISPOR is a non-profic organization that seeks to "promote the
practice and science of pharmacoeconomics and health outcomes
assessment". In addition to information about ISPOR, the site
features a series of working papers, ISPOR publications, a conference
calendar, directory of university offering degrees in
pharmacoeconomics or health economics, and links to other pharmacoeconomic Web
sites
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services
The Grey Literature
Page
The Grey Literature Page, produced by the New York Academy of
Sciences, features the Grey Literature Report, a quarterly
publication that identifies recently published yet hard-to-find
information in the fields of Health Policy and Public Health. The site
also includes links to the publication Web pages of organizations and
agencies who publish "grey literature", which includes
"...reports (pre-prints, preliminary progress and advanced
reports, technical reports, statistical reports, memoranda,
state-of-the art reports, market research reports, etc.), theses,
conference proceedings, technical specifications and standards,
non-commercial translations, bibliographies, technical and commercial
documentation, and official documents not published commercially
(primarily government reports and documents) (Alberani, 1990)."
Issues of the publication are also available via electronic
subscription.
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality (AHRQ)
HealthEconomics.com: The
Professionals Guide to Health Economics, Medical, and Pharmacy
Resources on the 'Net
HealthEconomics.com links to "resources on health economics,
pharmacoeconomics, outcomes research, managed care, value in medicine,
health-related quality of life, performance assessment, and quality of
care." The site is searchable by key word.
Pharmacognosy
Cyberbotanica:
Plants and Cancer Treatments
American Society of
Pharmacognosy
Drug Digest.com: Herbs
and Supplements
Dr.
Duke's Phytochemical and Ethnobotanical Databases
Professional Information
| Licensure | Employment | Conferences |
Professional Information: Associations and Organizations
Academy of Managed Care Pharmacy
(AMCP)
American Association of Colleges of
Pharmacy (AACP)
American Association of Pharmaceutical
Scientists (AASP)
American Chemical Society (ACS):
ChemCenter
American College of Clinical
Pharmacy
American Council on
Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE)
The ACPE is "the national agency for the accreditation of
professional degree programs in pharmacy and for the approval of
providers of continuing pharmaceutical education." At the site
you will find a Directory of Accredited Professional Programs of
Colleges and Schools of Pharmacy, criteria and standards for
accreditation of professional programs and Continuing Education
Provider Programs, a directory of organizations accredited to provide
Continuing Education courses, and full-text publications (PDF or Word
document).
American Pharmaceutical Association
(APA)
American Society of Consultant
Pharmacists (ASCP)
American Society of Health-System
Pharmacists (ASHP)
Food and Drug Law Institute
(FDLI)
Institute for Safe Medication Practices
(ISMP)
National Association of Chain Drug
Stores
National Community Pharmacists
Association (NCPA)
Pharmacy Society of
Wisconsin
Regulatory Affairs Professionals
Society (RAPS)
Society of Toxicology
Professional Information: Licensure
Board of Pharmaceutical
Specialties
Includes exam information and application. Allows you to search for
pharmacists by specialty, name or location.
National Association of Boards of
Pharmacy (NABP)
Includes information about the NAPLEX examination, how to transfer
your license or NAPLEX score to other states, and links to the Boards
of Pharmacy for each State.
Wisconsin
Department of Regulation and Licensing
Professional Information: Employment
Resources to help you find a job in
Pharmacy Practice, Pharmacology, or Toxicology
UW-Madison School of
Pharmacy Job Board
Professional Information: Continuing Education
The American College of Pharmaceutical Education (ACPE): Continuing Education Directory of Accredited Providers See a directory of organizations who have been accredited to provide continuing education opportunities.
Professional Information: Conferences
Pharmacy Related
Conferences, Workshops, and Meetings
This site, which is international in scope and maintained by David
Bourne, allows you to add your own meetings, conferences, or
workshops.
Statistics
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)
Links to CDC Publications, Software, and
Other Products ;Data
and Statistics
National Center for
Health Statistics (NCHS)
Social Statistics
Briefing Room (SSBR)
MMWR: Morbidity and
Mortality Weekly Report
Toxicology
ATSDR: Agency for Toxic Substances
and Disease Registry
The ATSDR Web site, produced by the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services, includes alerts, health advisories, factsheets,
databases and publications regarding the public health aspects of
toxic substances. Also available at the ATSDR site is the HazDat database
(Hazardous Substance Release/Health Effects Database), and a ToxFAQs
section which includes a series of summaries on toxic chemicals with
links to a molecular model of the chemical (MDL Chemscape CHIME plug-in required) and a Material Safety Data
Sheet if available.
TOXNET: Toxicology Data
Network
Toxnet, a product of the National Library of Medicine, provides
access to a series of databases containing toxicology data; studies,
reports, and bibliographic information on toxicology; information
about toxic releases, and chemical information that includes
nomenclature, identification, and structure (structure searches
require CHIME
software).
Cheminfo : Chemical
Information from Indiana University
Links to chemistry information resources.
Material Safety Data Sheets
(MSDSs)
Provided by the University of California-San Diego,Environmental
Health and Safety Office.
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