Micromedex

A very popular drug database (for both web users as well as PDA users) is the Micromedex branded products. From their website, www.micromedex.com, much information is given about a variety of products. I am going to focus on a product called "Drugdex." This is a tool that provides comprehensive drug monographs of over 2,300 drugs to health care professionals (especially intended for pharmacists). This database really includes a tremendous amount of drugs, and it includes FDA-approved drugs, foreign drugs, over the counter drugs, and even investigational drugs. Because it is online, it updates very regularly, so even the newest of drugs can be found very quickly on Drugdex. Two important features for this program make it especially useful. Drugdex allows users to compare two drugs by various attributes, and it also provides off label indications, which can be very valuable to a wide variety of health care professionals.