A good site to obtain information on drugs and medications is RxList (www.rxlist.com), which is produced by HealthCentral.com Inc. This site claims to cover all drugs on the U.S. market or close to FDA approval. At last count, information was available on approximately 5,000 drugs.



A search can be run by drug name or keyword. Information available for a particular drug may include its chemical description, clinical pharmacology, indications and dosage, contraindications, side effects, interactions with other drugs, method of administration and cost. An additional feature at this site is a link to Taber’s Medical Encyclopedia, which can be used to obtain the definition of more than 53,000 medical terms.



Practice Guidelines

Clinical practice guidelines for a particular disease or condition can be helpful in determining the standard of care in a medical malpractice case. The National Guideline Clearinghouse (www.guideline.gov/index.asp) is a comprehensive searchable database of current clinical practice guidelines. It is sponsored by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, in partnership with the American Medical Association and the American Association of Health Plans.



This database provides a summary of each guideline along with information on how to obtain the full-text of the guideline.



Publications

This content has been archived. It is available through our partners, LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law.

To view this content, please continue to their sites.

Not a Lexis Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Not a Bloomberg Law Subscriber?
Subscribe Now

Why am I seeing this?

LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law are third party online distributors of the broad collection of current and archived versions of ALM's legal news publications. LexisNexis® and Bloomberg Law customers are able to access and use ALM's content, including content from the National Law Journal, The American Lawyer, Legaltech News, The New York Law Journal, and Corporate Counsel, as well as other sources of legal information.

For questions call 1-877-256-2472 or contact us at [email protected]