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Catalogue - online material | Drug information | Dictionaries and lexicons

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Catalogue - online material

AHFS Drug Information

Australian Medicines handbook online

Australian prescription products guide

Basic and Clinical Pharmacology - 10th Ed. (2007)

British pharmacopoeia

Dictionary of Organic Compounds

Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacologic Basis of Therapeutics - 11th Ed. (2006)

Drug facts and comparisons

Martindale: the complete drug reference

Merck index

Merck manual online

Mims online

USP DI® Drug Information for the Health Care Provider (2006)


Drug information

Aldrich: catalogue handbook of fine chemicals

Australian Medicines handbook online

Australian pharmaceutical formulary and handbook

Australian prescription products guide

British pharmacopoeia

Drug facts and comparisons

Drug Information
This site is produced by the US National Library of Medicine's Medlineplus health information service. The database contains listed information on over 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications. Information includes brand names, descriptions, proper uses of the medications, storage, precautions and side effects.

Martindale: the complete drug reference

Merck index

Merck manual

Mims online

Pharmaceutical calculations
Produced by students of the R.V.S.College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, India, this site performs online pharmaceutical calculations. The site initially contains a pop-up advertisement.

Sigma catalogue of biochemicals, reagents & kits for life science research

Therapeutic guidelines


Dictionaries and lexicons

Dictionary of Organic Compounds

Periodic table of elements
From Los Alamos National Laboratory.

Pharma-lexicon
This is an online database of over 57,000 free medical, pharmaceutical, biotech and agrochemical abbreviations.

Rxlist
RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. an American Pharmacist. Search by generic or brand name, drug names, keywords, imprint codes, medical terminology or NDC code search. The site contains also information on alternative medicine (western herbs, homeopathics, and Chinese herbal remedies). Drug FAQs/Patient monographs section allows search for information on more than 4,500 popular drugs. The site incorporates the Taber's medical encyclopedia with more than 53,000 definitions.