Drugs and dietary supplements

This week: miniguide on consumer resources for drug and supplement safety. These resources were found in the INFOMINE database. INFOMINE also offers resources for nutrition, food safety, health conditions, preventive medicine, clinical trials, and practice guidelines. (Links in this paragraph direct you only to free resources. Customize your own search using INFOMINE Advanced Search.)

Dietary Supplements Labels Database
Ingredients and labels of more than 2,000 brands of dietary supplements.

Herbs and Supplements : MEDLINEplus
For each herb or supplement an evidence-based monograph gives the following: description, synonyms, tested and traditional uses in humans and animals, doses, safety, interactions with other herbs/supplements/drugs/foods, and bibliography.

Mayo Clinic : Drugs and Supplements
Look up information on prescription drugs, non-prescription drugs, and dietary supplements.

DailyMed : Current Medication Information
The National Library of Medicine provides the information from package inserts and drug labels of FDA approved prescription medications. Includes description, clinical pharmacology, indications and usage, contraindications, warnings, precautions, adverse reactions, dosage, and supplemental material.

Drugs@FDA : A Catalog of FDA Approved Drug Products
Drugs@FDA, is a searchable database that offers information about most human drugs approved by the FDA since 1939. It contains information about approved prescription drugs, some over-the-counter drugs, and discontinued drugs. For each drug you'll find FDA application number(s), active ingredient, therapeutic equivalents, strength, dosage, marketing status, labels, approval history, and approval history documents.