Microbiology & Immunology: Drug Info
Hardin Library Resources
Key Resources
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PubMed This link opens in a new windowProvides access to bibliographic information in Medline and other sources. (See the available Help Sheet). For full functionality, log in to your MyNCBI account..
Drug Resources
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AccessMedicine Drug IndexContains drug monographs.
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AccessPharmacyAccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. A flexible resource, AccessPharmacy allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.
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ClinicalKeyClinicalKey provides access to more than 1100 medical texts published by Elsevier, articles from more than 500 journals, practice guidelines, drug information, and patient education handouts. All can be searched together, individually, or by type of resource (books, journals, etc.) ClinicalKey replaces MDConsult.
Users must log in to (free) personal accounts to download PDFs.
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Drugs@FDASearch for official information about FDA approved brand name and generic drugs.
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EpocratesProvides drug monographs and formulary information including dosing, pill identification, contraindications, interactions, and adverse reactions. This is a free resource but registration is required to access some features. Other features require an individual subscription. Mobile version (Epocrates Rx) is available. Students can contact Epocrates at 1-800-230-2150 for information on discounts for individual subscriptions.
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Meyler’s Side Effects of DrugsThe international encyclopedia of adverse drug reactions and interactions.
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MicromedexContains the Micromedex databases: POISINDEX, DRUGDEX, EMERGINDEX, PDR, Martindale, TOMES, and Drug-Reax, and Tomes, and the drug information tools: Martindale, PDR, Material Safety Data Sheets prepared by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, and Index Nominum.
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National Library of Medicine Drug Information PortalUse this gateway for selected drug information on over 15,000 drugs from U.S. Government agencies spanning the time they are entered into clinical trials (Clinicaltrials.gov) through their entry in the U.S. market place (Drugs@FDA).
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Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic ApproachJoseph T. DiPiro, Robert L. Talbert, et al.
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Physicians' Desk Reference (PDR) (Via Micromedex)PDR is included within the drug information in Micromedex. No direct link is available. Print copies are also available at the Reserve Section in Hardin Library.
Natural Products
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Dietary Supplements Labels Database (DLSD)From the National Institutes of Health (NIH). Offers information from the labels of over 2,000 brands of dietary supplements in the marketplace, including vitamins, minerals, herbs or other botanicals, amino acids, and other specialty supplements.
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Natural Products DatabaseThe natural product content is adapted from The Review of Natural Products, a Facts & Comparisons online database. Each monograph includes a Clinical Overview section and then additional in-depth fields that provide a detailed discussion of the use, dosing, adverse reactions, and interactions of each herbal product.
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MicromedexMicromedex has a component called AltMedDex. After conducting a search using a natural product name, slect the AltMedDex monograph.
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National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine (NCCAM)NCCAM is produced by NIH and provides information on a wide range of alternative therapies, including herbal products.
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Natural Medicines Comprehensive DatabasesAvailable at Hardin Library. Call number RM258.5 .N38
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Natural Medicines (formerly Natural Standard)Provides evidence-based information about complementary and alternative therapies.
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PubMed Dietary Supplement SubsetPreviously Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS), this database is now a subset of PubMed. It is essentially a "limit" on the PubMed database that allows users to limit the 20 million+ citations in PubMed to those that are dietary supplement-related (just over 400,000 at this time).
Biomedical Sciences Librarian

Chris Childs
Contact:
Hardin Library for the Health Sciences
100 Hardin Library
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1098
319-335-9849
Fax 319-353-3752
100 Hardin Library
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1098
319-335-9849
Fax 319-353-3752