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.

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.

Available online "This dictionary is an ideal source of reference on the wide range of medicines available today. It covers over-the-counter, pharmacy, and prescription medicines. It contains entries for classes of drugs such as antibiotics, generic names such as ibuprofen, and proprietary names such as Prozac and Arthrotec. Comprehensive information on side effects and interactions with other medicines are given, and there are entries on conditions and the medicines used to treat them. Terms used in the prescription and supply of medicine are provided."

"New antibacterial agents are continually being approved, and making sense of the morass of agents currently on the market can be difficult. Designed for quick, easy comprehension, this handbook reference will assist students in understanding the rationale behind antibiotic selection for common bacterial pathogens and infectious disease presentations. By supplying the rationale for choosing antibiotics, the book reduces the amount of memorization necessary for proper antibiotic prescribing."--BOOK JACKET.

Available in print, call# RM267 .H38 2007

"These tutorials focus on the basic chemical concepts which govern drug action"

An online science primer from the NCBI covering a variety of topics related to biotechnology including issues in molecular biology, genetics, pharmacogenomics and phylogenetics.

"Patients with chronic pain present a unique set of challenges to the primary care clinician. In Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management, Second Edition, leading pain specialist Dawn A. Marcus, MD, again offers practical, clear, and succinct evidence-based approaches to the diagnosis and treatment of the myriad painful conditions clinicians see in their offices every day, such as headache, back pain, arthritis, fibromyalgia, and abdominal pain. Sections addressing pain management in children, pregnant women, and seniors are also included. This new edition is designed to provide a pragmatic approach to assessing and treating the complex issues and characteristics of chronic pain patients. New chapters expand upon the evidence-based recommendations and practical office tools previously provided, with the addition of new chapters addressing risk management; pain syndromes in the shoulder, upper extremity, and lower extremity; and cancer and end-of-life pain. Of special value, the charting forms and patient educational materials on CD-ROM have been expanded to include ready-to-use screening tools for depression and anxiety, neuropathic pain tools, and fibromyalgia assessment tools. Chronic Pain: A Primary Care Guide to Practical Management, Second Edition provides strategies and techniques that are designed to improve the confidence with which the primary care physician can approach patients with complex pain complaints, reduce staff stress, and improve patient success."

"ConsumerLab.com provides comprehensive information about vitamin, herbal and other supplements, and nutritional products.  Includes ConsumerLab.com's independent product evaluations, lists of tested products (passed and failed), product recalls, and safety warnings.  A science-based encyclopedia of natural products is also provided, including a drug-interaction database."

Subscription provides for up to FOUR simultaneous users.

While not a replacement for other drug information databases like Micromedex or Facts and Comparisons, this is one of the better consumer drug information sites.

"DailyMed provides high quality information about marketed drugs. This information includes FDA approved labels (package inserts). This Web site provides health information providers and the public with a standard, comprehensive, up-to-date, look-up and download resource of medication content and labeling as found in medication package inserts."

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

"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."

"A Guide for Pharmacists"
This online guide has a huge number of links classified under a variety of categories covering a range of scientific and pharmacy practice issues. Unfortunately, many of the links are to pay or subscription only resources but many of these are available through Cowles Library.