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Library Information
Nursing & Health Sciences Personal Librarian
DailyMed
DailyMed provides standard, comprehensive, and up-to-date information about currently marketed drugs, including FDA labels (package inserts). This website from the National Library of Medicine is made freely available online.
LactMed
- Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.
FDA Orange Book
- Orange Book: Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence EvaluationsThe publication Approved Drug Products with Therapeutic Equivalence Evaluations (commonly known as the Orange Book) identifies drug products approved on the basis of safety and effectiveness by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) under the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (the Act) and related patent and exclusivity information.
- Search the Orange Book DatabaseSearch approved drug products by active ingredient, proprietary name, applicant, application number, dosage form, route of administration or patent number.
Healthcare Drug Companies
- MerckA pharmaceutical company.
- Johnson & JohnsonA healthcare product and pharmaceutical company.
- AllerganA pharmaceutical company.
- Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA)PhRMA, a lobbyist organization, represents biopharmaceutical researchers and biotechnology companies in Washington DC.