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Drug Info

  • Drugs & Supplements  
      
    MEDLINEplus has extensive information on drugs.
  • Children's Medications  
      
    Information on how a medicine works, how to take it, and possible side effects. The list has only the generic names of drugs, not brand names.
  • Drugs.com
    Information on more than 24,000 prescription drugs, over-the-counter medicines & natural products. See interactions, learn about possible side effects, identify unknown pills, and more.
  • Over-The-Counter Drugs  
      
    Learn the basics on over-the-counter medications.
  • Identify an Unknown Pill  
      
    Identify unknown tablet or capsule medications based on physical characteristics and high-resolution images in Pillbox.
  • Drug Information Portal  
      
    Covers drugs from the time they enter into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). Links to medical research, toxicology, and summaries of use/efficacy are included.
  • DrugWatch.com
    Learn about conditions treated by prescription and over-the-counter medications, interactions, suggested dosage, possible side effects, and related lawsuits or recalls.
 

MedlinePlus

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MedlinePlus brings together authoritative information from NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies and health-related organizations. MedlinePlus also contains extensive information about drugs and supplements, an illustrated medical encyclopedia, interactive tutorials, the latest health news, and surgery videos.

 

General Health Information

  • PubMed Health
    a unique database that offers up-to-date information on diseases, conditions, drugs, treatment options, and healthy living, with a special focus on comparative effectiveness research from institutions around the world
  • Medify
    Medify pulls out key information about patients and their experiences from millions of studies from MEDLINE. Similar patients across the studies are combined and organized around the topics you care about: conditions, treatments, experts, and hot research issues.
  • Best Health
    Best Health, by BMJ Group, gives you reliable, easy-to-understand information, to help you make the best decisions about your healthcare.
  • KidsHealth  
      
    There are literally thousands of in-depth features, articles, animations, games, and resources - all original and all developed by experts in the health of children and teens.
  • Healthfinder  
      
    This site is a gateway consumer health and human services information Website. It has a list of medical libraries in the U.S., an index of medical and health related journals on the Web, searchable medical dictionaries, and a listserv open to the public.
  • New York Online Access to Health (NOAH)  
      
    NOAH: New York Online Access to Health is a unique collection of state, local and federal resources. Searchers may select from a list of Health Topics which are then narrowed to include definitions, care and treatment, and lists of information resources.
  • Merck Manual Home Health Handbook  
      
    Merck editors translated the complex medical information in The Merck Manual into plain language, producing a book meant for all those people interested in medical care who did not have a medical degree.
  • Lab Tests Online
    Lab Tests Online has been designed to help you, as a patient or family caregiver, to better understand the many clinical lab tests that are part of routine care as well as diagnosis and treatment of a broad range of conditions and diseases.
  • Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Home Page  
      
    This searchable site provides health information that is government sponsored. It has links to the National Center for Health Statistics and various topics such as women's health.
  • MLA's Deciphering Medspeak Brochures  
      
    While trying to make informed health decisions, you have probably encountered "medspeak," the specialized language of health professionals. "Deciphering Medspeak" helps to translate common and disease-specific "medspeak" terms.
  • Office of Rare Disease Research
    Information on rare diseases, patient advocacy groups, research and clinical trials, and genetic & rare diseases.
  • National Organization for Rare Disorders
    NORD provides information for patients and families, mentoring for patient organizations, advocacy for the rare disease community, research grants, and patient assistance programs
 

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