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Resources
for Pharmacy
Professional Organizations and related web sites
Journals
For a complete listing of our electronic journals see our
e-journal
page or the library catalog.
Government Web Sites
- FDA (U.S. Food and Drug
Administration) - includes Safety Alerts, Product Approval
Information, links to Federal Regulations and consumer information.
- CDC (U.S. Centers for Disease
Control & Prevention) - includes links to the MMWR, prevention
guidelines, health information in English and Spanish.
- Nebraska Department of Health
and Human Services - includes links to job opportunities, office
locations and the Department of Regulations and Licensing.
- Iowa Department of Public
Health
Databases
- MEDLINE
Search Medline to locate articles on clinical drug topics: clinical
trials, adverse effects, dosage, routes of administration. Medline
is produced by the National Library of Medicine, Medline is the premier bibliographic database covering the fields of medicine, nursing, dentistry, veterinary medicine, the health care system, and the
pre-clinical sciences.
Medline contains bibliographic citations and author abstracts from more than 4,300 biomedical journals published in the United States and 70 other countries.
- IPA (International Pharmaceutical Abstracts)
Search IPA to locate articles on pharmacy practice, pharmaceutical
education, patient drug education, pharmceutics, pharmacoeconomics, legal aspects of pharmacy and
medication use, and other issues important to the professional
pharmacist. IPA is produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists
(ASHP). ASHP scans over 750 journals published worldwide for information to be added to IPA. All U.S. state pharmacy journals are included as well as most publications on cosmetics.
IPAs coverage of the pharmacy journal literature is better than the
coverage provided by Medline. Because articles about drug research are
primarily published in medical journals, IPA is not a good source of
information about current drug research; however, the journals
indexed in IPA are good sources for overviews about recently approved
drugs.
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IDIS/Web
IDIS/Web is a full text database of articles related to drugs and drug
therapy from 200 leading medical and pharmaceutical journals. Leave the
username and password blank and click on the login button to begin a
session. Once the session has started click on the advanced or basic
search at the top to enter a query. Call the Reference staff at 280-5138
or email refdesk@creighton.edu
for assistance.
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Clinical Pharmacology
Clinical Pharmacology is one of the most widely used internet drug
information databases. (Accessible only in School of Pharmacy &
Health Sciences Library). PDA
version available
here (the pda software expires each quarter, so remember to get the
updates).
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Lexi-Comp Online
Formerly CRL Online, Lexi-Comp is a full-text collection of drug
information databases, corresponding to the drug information handbooks
in Lexi-Comp's Clinical Reference Library. It also has audio files of
drug name pronunciations. Information
for referencing.
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Micromedex
Micromedex provides a wide range of databases tailored to meet the needs
of healthcare professionals, including information related to drugs,
acute care, toxicology, and patient education.
Reference Works
Related web sites
- Hand Held Computing (PDA)
- Handheld Med
"Handheldmed delivers point of care content and applications
ideally suited for busy healthcare professionals. Founded by
physicians and medical students, Handheldmed provides users with
the leading patient tracking application combined with the most
comprehensive library of electronic medical content, accessible at
the point of care." (From the Handheld Med web site)
- Handango
"Handango is the world's leading publisher of handheld and
wireless software, serving more than 5,000 handheld software
companies through international distribution channels." (From
the Handango web site). Also includes free software.
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