Pharmacy and Pharmacology

The mRCT searches for controlled trials across many databases, including ClinicalTrials.gov,the National Health Service in the UK, and the International Standard Randomized Controlled Trial Number (ISRCTN) Register.

ClinicalTrials.gov offers up-to-date information for locating federally and privately supported clinical trials. The database currently contains nearly 100,000 trials in all 50 States and in 173 countries, sponsored by the National Institutes of Health, other federal agencies, and private industry.

Drugs@FDA allows you to search for official information about FDA-approved brand name and generic drugs and therapeutic biological products.

The DPD contains product specific information on approximately 18,000 products drugs approved for use in Canada. The database is managed by Health Canada, the federal regulator of therapeutic products, and includes human pharmaceutical and biological drugs, veterinary drugs and disinfectant products.

Drug assessments published by the European Medicines Agency. Provides Q&A and patient leaflets regarding medicines, including rejected, suspended, or withdrawn medications.

Does not necessarily cover all drugs in use in Europe.

Provides online full-text access to over 40,000 books in all subject areas published by Springer, one of the world's largest academic publishers. Includes all books published by Springer in English, French, Italian, and Spanish from 2005 to the present, plus most books published from 1996-2004 and selected books published before 1996, under the following imprints: Apress, Birkhauser, Copernicus Books, Humana Press, Physica-Verlag, Plenum US, Springer, Springer-Verlag, Steinkopff, and TELOS. Includes books from 38 different book series as well as books published independent of any series.

Books can be viewed and printed chapter by chapter in PDF at no charge. In addition, personal copies of some titles can be purchased for $24.95 each through a service offered by Springer called MyCopy. The MyCopy offer is currently valid for over 20,000 Springer eBooks. Books are new soft cover editions with a color cover and black and white book content.  To be eligible for the MyCopy service, books must be:

• Fewer than 1,200 pages
• Single titles (not part of a multi-volume set)
• Published 2005 or later
• English language

 

AccessPharmacy 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. The eBook collection within AccessPharmacy consists of 22 textbooks, including: -Goodman & Gilman’s The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 11th Edition -Basic & Clinical Pharmacology, 10th Edition -Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach, 6th Edition -Pharmacoepidemiology: Principles & Practice -Pharmacy and Federal Drug Law Review

MD Consult is a comprehensive collection of medical information including MEDLINE, full-text reference books, practice guidelines, drug information and patient education handouts.

Please Note: Access to MD Consult will end by June 15, 2013; this product will be replaced by Clinical Key.

USP DI(r) Drug Information for the Health Care Professional has been succeeded by Thomson Healthcare's enhanced DrugPoints(r). Like USP DI, DrugPoints contains concise drug information designed to assist clinicians in making informed, evidence-based decisions about the proper care and treatment of their patients. The two products will provide comparable drug information, plus DrugPoints will feature Black Box Warnings, images, and a new toxicology section not currently available in USP DI. Additionally, DrugPoints includes expanded evidence-based medicine ratings of drug indications.

Current Edition

PubMed indexes over 4,000 biomedical, nursing, dentistry and related journals, with over 21 million citations in MEDLINE, PreMEDLINE and related databases. PubMed is produced by the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and provides links between article citations and relevant data in other NCBI ENTREZ databases, including Nucleotide and Protein Sequences, Protein Structures, Complete Genomes, Taxonomy, and others.

This version has links to full text available to UM affiliates.

1950 to present; journal literature only 1950 to present