Useful links


The Independent Drug Information Service has compiled a list of links about medications and related matters that you might find useful. Listing here does not imply our endorsement.

American College of Physicians (ACP) Journal Club - http://www.acpjc.org/

Australian National Prescribing Service (NPS) - http://www.nps.org.au/site.php?page=1

The Australian Prescriber - http://www.australianprescriber.com/

Bandolier - http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/

Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine (Oxford) - http://www.cebm.net/

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) - http://www.cdc.gov/

Clinical Evidence - http://www.clinicalevidence.com/ceweb/conditions/index.jsp

ClinicalTrials.gov - http://clinicaltrials.gov

The Cochrane Collaboration - http://www.cochrane.org/index.htm

Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs - http://www.crbestbuydrugs.org

EBM online - http://ebm.bmjjournals.com/

Effective Healthcare - http://effectivehealthcare.ahrq.gov/aboutUs/index.cfm

Electronic Orange Book - http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/default.htm

Georgetown University Department of Pharmacology drug interactions website - http://medicine.iupui.edu/flockhart/

Health Knowledge Centre - http://www.healthknowledgecentral.org/default.html

Healthy Skepticism - http://www.healthyskepticism.org/

The Kaiser Family Foundation - http://www.kff.org

The Medical Letter - http://www.medicalletter.org

Medline PubMed - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?DB=pubmed

MedlinePlus Drug Information - http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html

Medscape - http://www.medscape.com/medscapetoday

Micromedex PDR - http://www.micromedex.com/products/pdr

National Center for Complementary and Herbal Medicines - http://nccam.nih.gov/

National Guidelines clearinghouse - http://www.guideline.gov/

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - http://www.nice.org.uk/

National Institutes of Health (NIH) - http://www.nih.gov

NIH Consensus development program - http://consensus.nih.gov

OHSU Drug Effectiveness Review Project - http://www.ohsu.edu/ohsuedu/research/policycenter/DERP/index.cfm

The Oxford Pain Internet Site - http://www.jr2.ox.ac.uk/bandolier/booth/painpag/index2.html

P & T Community - http://www.ptcommunity.com/ptJournal/journalView.cfm

Pharmaceutical Assistance Contract for the Elderly (PACE) - http://www.aging.state.pa.us/aging/cwp/view.asp?a=554&Q=254033&agingNav=|6658|

Pennsylvania Department of Aging - http://www.aging.state.pa.us/

Pennsylvania Department of Health - http://www.dsf.health.state.pa.us/health/site/default.asp

“Powerful Medicines: the Benefits, Risks, and costs of Prescription Drugs.” - www.powerfulmedicines.org

Quackwatch - http://www.quackwatch.org/

RxFiles - http://www.rxfiles.ca/

TRIP database - http://www.tripdatabase.com/index.html

U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) - http://www.fda.gov/cder/index.html

U.S. National Library of Medicine, NIH - http://www.nlm.nih.gov