New Drug Information Portal from the National Library of Medicine
Sunday, February 17, 2008
Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASN
The National Library of Medicine just released
a new Drug Information Portal for patients and health care professionals. From
the announcement:
More than 12,000 drug records are available for searching. The search interface is straightforward, requiring only a drug name as a search term, and successful searching is enhanced by the assistance of a spellchecker. Information buttons and balloon pop-ups guide the user by providing helpful hints or a description of the resource and links to the source website. Links to the following resources contribute to the search results: MedlinePlus®, AIDSinfo®, Medline/PubMed®, LactMed, HSDB®, Dietary Supplements Labels Database, TOXLINE®, DailyMed®, ClinicalTrials.gov, PubChem, NIAID Anti-HIV/OI Database, ChemIDplus®, Drugs@FDA, DEA, and USA.gov.
The main search page is as uncluttered as Google. It suggests trying valium, so here's the search result as an example:
For physicians,
Epocrates,
UpToDate, and
PDR.net still offer more readable presentations of drug information, but if you're interested in patient information -- or for sheer quantity and breadth -- the
Drug Information Portal is hard to beat.
(Also posted on
The Efficient MD.)
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What Medical Blogs are Read at the National Library of Medicine?
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Joshua Schwimmer, MD, FACP, FASN
In
this post, I discussed
Citing Medicine: the second edition of the National Library of Medicine/National Institutes of Health's "Style Guide for Authors, Editors, and Publishers," which included a section on
how to cite blogs (and other sources of information on the Internet).
To the amusement of a number of medical bloggers, the "
examples of citations to blogs" includes many carefully constructed references to some prominent (and not so prominent) blogs. The list -- to the eye of someone who reads blogs -- was not created randomly, and several people have wondered whether it represents the reading list from someone at the National Library of Medicine.
In order of appearance, the following is a complete list of blogs that were cited. Some of these blogs I read regularly; some I haven't read in a long time; and some blogs I would have never discovered if not for this list.
Labels: medical blogosphere, medical blogs, nih, nlm
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For physicians, Epocrates, UpToDate, and PDR.net still offer more readable presentations of drug information, but if you're interested in patient information -- or for sheer quantity and breadth -- the Drug Information Portal is hard to beat.
