Friday, May 14, 2010

Drugs and Health

Drugs and Health

 You may find the following sites useful for your professional knowledge or directing to your patients:

Health Canada Drugs and Health products provides:
  • Canadian resources with advisories,warnings and recall,
  • Drug production database (db), and
  • Adverse reaction e-notices.

ePocrates supplies:

  •  details on drugs and diseases,
  •  patient handouts,
  •  current news, and
  •  mobile alerts on clinical references.
e-Therapeutics+ offers:

  •  Canadian perspective,
  •  overviews conditions, diseases, and their management,
  •  drugs and herbs interaction information,
  •  patient handouts, and mobile alerts.

 MedlinePlus Drugs and Supplements:
  • why and how to use remedies by name,
  • possible side effects and warnings of drugs, as well details on herbal or supplemental options.

 Recent drug books located in at WLRC which you likely have not seen yet are:
  • Basic concepts in pharmacology: A student’s survival guide.
    • Simplifies the difficult-to-grasp pharmacology concept of today.
  • Clinical ocular toxicology: Drugs, chemical, and herbs.
    • Explains in detail, known as well as possible ocular outcomes of chemical and herbal medicines
  • Pharmacology for the prehospital professional
    • Gives realistic clinical problems with drug profiles and possible contextual conditions.
  • Drug metabolism handbook: Concepts and applications.
    • Exposes new tools and experimental aspect of drug metabolism.

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