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Clinical Research

Access Pharmacy

AccessPharmacy is an online curricular resource designed to meet the changing demands of pharmacy education. At its core, AccessPharmacy is a set of 24 online, full-text books including major books like DiPiro's Pharmacotherapy: A Pathophysiologic Approach and Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, with some being updated monthly.  A flexible resource, it allows students to select a core curriculum topic, browse by organ system, review textbooks, or search across leading pharmacy online references.  Texts are supplemented with multimedia material like animations.

AccessScience

Full search of the encyclopedia plus science news, definitions, biographies, illustrations, animations and more.

AMA Manual of Style

AMA Manual of Style contains everything medical and scientific researchers, writers, and editors need to produce well-organized, clear, readable, and authoritative manuscripts.   This guide is an essential tool for physicians and other health professionals. In addition to the basics of grammar and citation, it leads writers through the maze of abbreviation, nomenclature, and quantitation.

A guided tour is available for first time users.

Anatomy of a Clinical Trial

A flow chart showing the various stages of a clinical trial.

Arizona Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics (CERT)

"We are an independent research and education center whose mission is to improve therapeutic outcomes and reduce adverse events caused by drug interactions and drugs that prolong the QT interval, especially those affecting women."

Association for Clinical Research Professionals

Information on workshops for CRCs, certification and career links.

Bioethics Resources on the Web

"The Internet is replete with resources available to those with an interest in bioethics including education, research involving human participants and animals, medical and health care ethics, and the implications of applied genetics and biotechnology. This website contains a broad collage of annotated web links, and while this list is comprehensive, it is not totally inclusive. The listed resources provide background information and various positions on issues in bioethics. Where possible, we have linked directly to those positions."

BioMed Central

BioMed Central provides full-text access to about 100 bio-medical journals online.  Browsing by journal title or searching by keyword is possible.  Access is free to Drake students, but one needs to register for membership on the website.

Biopharmaceutical Glossaries

A collection of glossaries on a variety of topics including: Drug Discovery & Development, Molecular Biology, Pharmacoeconomics, Biology, Chemistry and Informatics.

CanadaTrials

Clinical trials information for patients and researchers in Canada.

Center for Information and Study on Clinical Research

A non-profit organization founded in 2003 to assist professionals and the public to understand clinical research.

CenterWatch

One of the main, largest listing services for clinical trials.

Clinical Trials (ebook)

Clinical Trials (ebook)

Duley, Leila; Farrell, Barbara. BMJ Books, 2002. 133p. ISBN 0-7279-1599-1.

ClinicalTrials.gov

"ClinicalTrials.gov provides regularly updated information about federally and privately supported clinical research in human volunteers. ClinicalTrials.gov gives you information about a trial's purpose, who may participate, locations, and phone numbers for more details."

Conducting GCP-Compliant Clinical Research

Available onlineBohaychuk, Wendy; Ball, Graham.  John Wiley & Sons, 1999.  211p.  ISBN 0-47198824-3.

Drug Discovery @nature.com

Resources and information about drug discovery from the Nature Publishing Group.

Drug Industry Document Archive

"The Drug Industry Document Archive (DIDA) contains over 2500 documents about pharmaceutical industry clinical trials, publication of study results, pricing, marketing, relations with physicians and involvement in continuing medical education.

Most of these previously secret documents were made public as a result of lawsuits against the following pharmaceutical companies: Merck & Co., Parke-Davis, Warner-Lambert, Wyeth, and Pfizer. For further information on documents connected to these lawsuits, please consult The Documents."

Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children (ebook)

Ethical Conduct of Clinical Research Involving Children (ebook)

Field, Marilyn J.; Behrman, Richard E. National Academic Press, 2004. 425p. ISBN 0-309-09181-0.

Exploring Challenges, Progress, and New Models for Engaging the Public in the Clinical Research Enterprise: Clinical Research Roundtable Workshop Summary (ebook)

Exploring Challenges, Progress, and New Models for Engaging the Public in the Clinical Research Enterprise: Clinical Research Roundtable Workshop Summary (ebook)

Clinical Research Roundtable. National Academic Press, 2002. 97p. ISBN 0-309-08946-8 (book), 0-309-51726-5 (PDF).

Facts and Comparisons

An internet based drug information library.  It contains the following databases:  Drug Facts & Comparisons, Drug Interaction Facts, Drug Interaction Facts for Herbal, Non-Prescription Drug Therapy, Off-Label Drug Facts, A to Z Drug Facts, Review of Natural Products, Med Facts:  Patient Handouts, Manufacturer Index, Drug Identifier, and The Cancer Chemotherapy Manual.