Drug Information

DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA labels (package inserts).

Simple search for drug name, ingredient and application number. The Advanced Search offers additional fields for searching by Action Dates.

A peer-reviewed and fully referenced database of drugs to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. Among the data included are maternal and infant levels of drugs, possible effects on breastfed infants and on lactation, and alternate drugs to consider.

To provide timely consumer information on generic drugs, the Electronic Orange Book is updated daily as new generic approvals occur.

RxClass is a new application from researchers in the Lister Hill National Center for Biomedical Communications (LHNCBC) at the National Library of Medicine (NLM). RxClass allows users to search and browse drug classes and their RxNorm drug members through a simple Web interface by searching through five sources of drug-class information.

The RxNav browser is a powerful Web application for displaying drug information. “RxNav displays links from clinical drugs, both branded and generic, to their active ingredients, drug components and related brand names.”