Resources for Looking up Medication Information

Daily Med 
http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm 
DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts.

MedlinePlus Drugs and Supplements http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
Prescription and over-the-counter medication information, as well as information on herbs and supplements

Medicinas, hierbas y suplementos (Spanish portal)
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/spanish/druginformation.html

AIDSinfo 
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/ 
Drug Database of factsheets on HIV/AIDS-realted drugs

infoSIDA (Spanish Portal)
http://aidsinfo.nih.gov/infoSIDA/

Drug Information Portal 
http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/drugportal.jsp
The National Library of Medicine Drug Information Portal gives users a gateway to selected drug information from the National Library of Medicine and other key government agencies.  More than 12,000 drugs can be searched using this facility. The portal covers drugs from the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the market place (Drugs@FDA). http://druginfo.nlm.nih.gov/drugportal/jsp/drugportal/about.jsp

 

Rebecca Brown, MLS
Kansas Outreach & Technology Liaison 
National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental Region
University of Kansas Medical Center