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CenterWatch Clinical Trials Listing Service Home Page - You can use this web site to find a variety of information related to clinical trials. It is designed to be a resource both for patients interested in participating in clinical trials and for research professionals.

Consumer Reports: Best Buy Drugs - The information on this website can help you learn about more affordable drug treatment options to discuss with your physician.

DrugDigest - DrugDigest is a noncommercial, evidence-based, consumer health and drug information site dedicated to empowering consumers to make informed choices about drugs and treatment options.

Drug Information - The Medical University of South Carolina offers excellent information on drugs, including a drug identifier searchable by color and markings on the pills.

Drug Interaction Checkers - There are a number of these sites on the Internet where you can put in the different medications (and some include supplements too) to see if there is potential for dangerous interactions. See what they each have to offer:
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Drugs.com Drug Interactions Checker

Drugs@FDA - A new, easy-to-use web site to help consumers and health professionals find information about FDA-approved drug products.

DrugWatch.com - This site is dedicated to educating the public about the details of prescription and over-the-counter medications, as well as aiding in the protection of patients and consumers by informing them of any associated drug side effects.  It features updated information concerning drug information, medication approvals, and current developments in the medical field.

Family Doctor Drug Database - The American Academy of Family Physicians provides this two part resource for drug information. Find information about the drugs you are taking, including proper use and possible side effects in the Drug Information Database, and select the drugs you are taking to learn about possible interactions with other drugs or foods in their Drug Interactions Database.

Food and Drug Administration Consumer Drug Information - Each of the Consumer Drug Information Sheets posted on this site provides basic information about medications recently approved by the FDA. Only information about drugs approved since January 1998 appears on this page. Since these are newly-approved drugs, they may not yet be on the market. For more information on drug availability, please check with your physician, pharmacist or health care provider. Pharmacists from CDER's Drug Information Branch prepare this information based on the text from the approved drug package insert. To read the complete text of the drug package insert, please click on the full label link provided at the bottom of each Consumer Drug Information Sheet.

ImmunoFacts.com - Latest vaccine and immunization information from Facts and Comparisons. Includes sections on General Vaccine Statements// Specific Vaccine Recommendations// Vaccine News// Canadian Vaccine Information// Mexican Vaccine Information// International Vaccine Links// Grass-Roots & Professional Support// Practice-Related Issues// Handouts, VISs, etc.

Partnership for Prescription Assistance - The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America's pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients who lack prescription coverage get the medicines they need through the public or private program that's right for them.

Prescription Drugs With the Potential for Abuse - Click here to read more about potentially dangerous drugs, from the National Institute on Drug Abuse.

Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry - The N.J. Prescription Drug Retail Price Registry will help consumers compare the retail prices charged by many pharmacies for the 150 most-frequently prescribed prescription drugs.

RXList - RXList provides patients and physicians with quality information about pharmaceuticals. RxList was founded and is maintained by Neil Sandow, Pharm.D. a licensed California Pharmacist with twenty + years of experience in retail and institutional pharmacy and twelve years as a Director of Pharmacy for several Bay Area hospitals. Dr. Sandow has been publishing on the Internet since 1994.

US Pharmacopeia via MEDLINEPlus - The National Library of Medicine offers this guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USP DI® Advice for the Patient.

Walgreens Pharmacy Online - Walgreens offers tremendous amounts of drug information in English and in Spanish.

 

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Medicamentos en la Clínica Universitaria de Navarra - Este sitio informativo provee contestaciones a preguntas frecuentes sobre una gran variedad de los medicamentos. La Clínica Universitaria de Navarra (España) presenta este sitio como una fuente de información sobre temas de salud para el público en general.

Medicamentos en Overlake - Obtenga respuestas acerca de sus preguntas sobre medicamentos en este extenso directorio, el cual cubre más de 33,000 productos, con o sin receta, y nutracéuticos.

Medicinas, Hierbas y Suplementos en MedlinePlus - Busque por orden alfabético, marca o nombre genérico del medicamento. . MedlinePlus es un portal de Internet que le ofrece al público información sobre la salud proveniente de la Biblioteca Nacional de Medicina de los EE. UU.

Plantas Medicinales - Monografías de las plantas medicinales utilizadas tradicionalmente en España, organizadas por orden alfabético, por actividad farmacológica o por composición química.  Algunos de los recursos están en formato PDF y requieren Adobe Acrobat Reader para poder verlos.

 

 

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January 2010