Drugs.com Adds PDR to Their Database

I've had this information in the review queue for a long time; finally I'm getting around to add it. Drugs.com has added the Physicians Desk Reference to their drugs database, and has slightly revamped their search options for finding any of over 26,000 drugs and medications.

From the front page of http://www.drugs.com, you may browse alphabetically or search by keyword. A search for "osteoarthritis" found 68 results divided into several sections: consumer information, advanced consumer information, PDR professional information, condition guide, and news and related articles.

The first three sections are drug information, which include brief descriptions of drugs and pointers to more extensive information. The one result in the condition guide provides information about osteoarthritis, while the news and articles category provides some related news which in this case mostly seems to be focused on arthritis. The search results provide a headline, summary, and pointer to additional information; unfortunately many of the headlines weren't as useful as they might be ("Capsule archive Late March").

Don't forget to check the other search options across the top of the Drugs.com homepage, including an interactions checker, pill identifier, and an image search.

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