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The National Library of Medicine's TOXNET system has launched LactMed, a database of information about drugs and lactation which contains over 450 drug records. It's free and searchable at http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT. The database is searchable by drug name (ex Synthroid) or...

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Canada has begun offering a database of reported adverse drug reactions, which you can access at http://hc-sc.gc.ca/hpfb-dgpsa/tpd-dpt/cadrmp-pcseim/index_e.html . The site describes the materia tracked in the site this way: "Canadian marketed health products of pharmaceuticals, biologics (including blood products and...

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Forest Laboratories announced last week that they've made available a clinical trial registry at http://www.forestclinicaltrials.com . It's free to access after you agree to the terms and conditions....

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Posted by RBuzz at 07:42 AM | Permalink

Eli Lilly and Company have announced a clinical trial registry which will post results from all Phase I through Phase IV clinical trials of Lilly's marketed products. At the moment, the registry is populated with about half the data intended...

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The University of Texas at El Paso and UT Austin Cooperative Pharmacy Program have teamed up to create an Herbal Safety Web site at http://www.herbalsafety.utep.edu . The site is available in English and Spanish. There are several tabs of information...

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Mayo Clinic has added a search tool of 86 herbs, vitamins, and other supplements to its Web site. It's available at http://www.mayoclinic.com/findinformation/druginformation/index.cfm , in the second search box. You may search by keyword or browse the list alphabetically. I looked...

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Posted by RBuzz at 11:59 PM | Permalink

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...

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MedicineNet has a new drug interaction tool on its Website at http://www.medicinenet.com/Script/Main/hp.asp. (That's the main page; the drug interaction page appears as a popup from a link on the page's left side.) The tool provides both drug/food and drug/drug reactions....

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Drugs.com has announced that they've relaunched as a searchable database of over 24,000 prescription and OTC drug descriptions. The front page has a variety of information -- news, a category list, poll, etc -- and it's easy to miss...

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