Essential Health Links: Pharmacology and Prescribing


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Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antiobiotics (APUA)
Boletin Farmacos
British National Formulary
Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines
essentialdrugs.org
International Drug Price Indicator Guide
International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD)
International Network of Drug Information Centres (INDICES)
Johns Hopkins University 'Antibiotic Guide'
Merck Manuals: Online Medical Library
PDR.net: The Online Home of PDR
PharmWeb
PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Pharmacology/Developing Countries
Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Drugs Lists
Virtual Library: Pharmacy
WHO: Essential Medicines Library
WHO: Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals

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Alliance for the Prudent Use of Antiobiotics (APUA)   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The APUA is a non-profit, international organization that conducts educational, research and international networking activities to promote appropriate use of antibiotics around the world. The site includes sections with fulltext documents on research and surveillance, and information for the health practitioner and patient/consumer, plus current news briefs. http://www.tufts.edu/med/apua/

Boletin Farmacos   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (Spanish)
This is a Spanish-language site for pharmacists and subscribers in Latin America. The site promotes high-quality care and rational use of drugs. www.boletinfarmacos.org

British National Formulary
The BNF provides healthcare professionals with authoritative, unbiased and practical information on the selection and use of drugs. The text is clear, concise and accessible and the content is revised every 6 months. The BNF is published by the British Medical Association and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain. The main target audience is the UK prescriber, but the the BNF is acclaimed internationally and is used worldwide. http://www.bnf.org/bnf/

Campaign for Access to Essential Medicines  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This site contains information about the campaign and related reports, publications, press releases and links. The campaign is sponsored by Medecins Sans Frontieres. http://www.accessmed-msf.org/index.asp

essentialdrugs.org    (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Russian, Spanish)
essentialdrugs.org is SATELLIFE's electronic discussion group on essential drugs. The site contains registration information for the email discussion list plus access to the E-DRUG archives. It is available in English, French, Spanish and Russian. There is also a separate list for health professionals in India, INDIA-DRUG. The discussions focus on the use of essential drugs in developing and transitional countries. http://www.essentialdrugs.org/index.php

International Drug Price Indicator Guide   (Focus on Low-Income Countries)  (French, Spanish)
The 2006 edition of the guide provides prices from nonprofit drug suppliers and procurement agencies. The content is available in English, Spanish and French and contains a keyword search engine. The full-text is available as s a pdf file. It is produced by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funded SEAM Project in collaboration with the WHO. http://erc.msh.org/mainpage.cfm?file=1.0.htm&id=1&temptitle=Introduction&module=DMP&language=English

International Network for the Rational Use of Drugs (INRUD)  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This website contains information about INRUD and its activities. INRUD designs, tests, and disseminates effective strategies to improve the way drugs are prescribed, dispensed, and used, with a particular emphasis on resource poor countries. The INRUD network consists of 20 groups, 15 from Africa, Asia and Latin America. http://www.inrud.org/

International Network of Drug Information Centres (INDICES)  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
INDICES is a global network of drug information centres, which advocates rational drug therapy particularly in developing countries. INDICES runs an e-mail list which provides a forum for discussion of all matters relating to drug information, and helps with specific drug information enquiries. http://www.essentialdrugs.org/indices/about.php

Johns Hopkins University 'Antibiotic Guide'
The 'Antibiotic Guide' contains an antibiotics database, searchable by diagnosis, antibiotic, or pathogen. There is also a news and features section. The site aims to be international, but the content is somewhat biased to US users. It is maintained by the Johns Hopkins Division of Infectious Diseases, U.S. http://www.hopkins-abxguide.org/

Merck Manuals: Online Medical Library
The 2006 edition of the Merck Manuals Online Medical Library provides useful clinical and prescribing information for healthcare professionals. While the text is geared toward U.S. based practitioners, the text is comprehensive, clear and concise. It includes detailed information on paediatrics, psychiatry, obstetrics, gynaecology, dermatology, pharmacology, ophthalmology, otolaryngology, and a number of special subjects. The site includes a keyword search engine. http://www.merck.com/mmpe/index.html

PDR.net: The Online Home of PDR
PDR Online provides access to the online version of Physicians' Desk Reference, PDR for Herbal medicines and PDR Multi-Drug Interactions. The content is biased towards the US. Registration is required (free). http://www.pdr.net/Home/Home.aspx

PharmWeb
PharmWeb is a series of links to pharmaceutical information on the Internet. The site indexes a wide range of organizations including pharmaceutical companies, government and regulatory bodies, societies, and publishers. The site includes a specialized search engine, PharmSearch. http://www.pharmweb.net/

PubMed - Free Fulltext Articles on Pharmacology/Developing Countries (725+)
 This PubMed search will identify all pharmcology/developing countries related free fulltext ejournal articles within the database. Within the search results, there are links to the fulltext material. By repeating this search periodically, you will find new fulltext articles that are added to the PubMed database weekly. Essential Health Links contains similar searches for most subpages listed in the Specific Health Resources table of contents. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=PureSearch&db=pubmed&details_term=%22loattrfree%20full%20text%22%5Bsb%5D%20AND%20%28%22pharmacology%22%5BSubheading%5D%20OR%20%22pharmacology%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20pharmacology%5BText%20Word%5D%29%20AND%20%28%22developing%20countries%22%5BMeSH%20Terms%5D%20OR%20developing%20countries%5BText%20Word%5D%29

Standard Treatment Guidelines and Essential Drugs Lists  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This compilation is based partly on WHO guidelines and is organized by health care level (primary, hospital level). The site is divided into chapters on specific disease systems and contains a keyword index for each level of care. The site is available as a pdf file and is maintained by the South African Drug Action Programme. http://www.hst.org.za/publications/52

Virtual Library: Pharmacy
This site is a gateway to drug-related databases, journals, companies, toxicology, conferences, and organizations. It includes a keyword search engine. http://www.pharmacy.org/

WHO: Essential Medicines Library  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
The WHO Essential Medicines Library is based on the 15th edition of the WHO Model List of Essential Medicines. It is primarily intended for national, hospital and institutional 'essential medicines selection committees'. The site provides links to the WHO model list and WHO model formulary (see World Health Organization: Model Formulary). The site also includes an alphabetical list of diseases, with links to information on diagnosis and treatment. http://healthtech.who.int/EMLib/

WHO: Health Technology and Pharmaceuticals  (Focus on Low-Income Countries)
This WHO site provides information on pharmaceutical and health technology developments with a particular focus on developing country environments. It includes links to 'blood safety and clinical technology', 'essential drugs and medicines' and 'vaccines and biologicals'. http://www.who.int/medicines_technologies/en/

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Updated: 09 April 2008