Useful Websites : Drugs (Pharmaceutical)

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Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
National Library of Medicine's portal to information on 12,000 drugs. Search results include links to related drug information in MedlinePlus, AIDSinfo, Medline/PubMed, LactMed, HSDB, Natural Standard, TOXLINE, DailyMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.   Provides links to additional resources.

Drugs@FDA
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/drugsatfda/index.cfm
A catalog of FDA approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs. Includes drug approval letters, labels, and review packages.

LactMed
http://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT
Contains over 450 drug records, with information such as maternal levels in breast milk, infant levels in blood, potential effects in breastfeeding infants and on lactation itself, the American Academy of Pediatrics category indicating the level of compatibility of the drug with breastfeeding, and alternate drugs to consider.

MedlinePlus Drug Information
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Information on thousands of prescription and over-the-counter medications is provided through two drug resources -- MedMasterT, a product of the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists (ASHP), and the USP DI® Advice for the Patient®, a product of the United States Pharmacopeia (USP).

Summaries of key questions from the Drug Effectiveness Review Project (NCBI Bookshelf)

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/bookshelf/br.fcgi?book=ebm