There are numerous resources available through subscription and open-access sources providing details on drugs and supplements.

Resources

  • Access Medicine Drug Monographs – comprehensive information on all aspects including dosing, indications, and adverse reactions for generic and brand-name drugs, with printable patient handouts presented in English and Spanish 
  • MedlinePlus – patient-oriented health information. Includes information about drugs, herbs, and supplements. 
  • Dailymed – database of product labels submitted to the FDA (drugs, medical devices, medical gases, medical foods)
  • Merck Manual Drug Info  
  • DrugBank – a pharmaceutical knowledge base that provides detailed clinical level information  about drugs as well as molecular/chemical structure. 
  • Drug Interaction Checker
  • Pill Identifier – use the Drugs.com site to match the imprint, size, shape, or color to find a detailed description of a drug. 
  • PubChem – this biological activities and chemical structures database included detailed chemical information. Links to PubMed literature citations.
  • epocrates – a point-of-care medical app with significant references for drug look-up, pill ID and interaction checks as well as many medical tables and EBM calculators. You must create an account on this site, but you do not have to subscribe. There is ‘premium’ content available for a fee.
  • Dietary Supplement Fact Sheets (NIH) – information about dietary supplements and their ingredients. Also available in Spanish. 
  • Dietary Supplements Label Database (DSLD) (NIH) – includes full label derived information from dietary supplement products marketed in the U.S. with a Web-based user interface that provides ready access to label information. It was developed to serve the research community and as a resource for health care providers and the public
  • National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health (CAM) (NIH)
  • Agricola – useful for finding information on herbs and medicinal plants. From the National Agricultural Library
  • About Herbs – a tool developed by Memorial Sloan Kettering to help figure out the value of using common herbs and other dietary supplements, especially in treating cancer. 
  • Clinical Guide to Herbs (American Botanical Council) – summaries and critical reviews of seminal articles on herbal medicine from popular and scientific literature around the world. Free to use, but requires registration.