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. The National Library of Medicine (NLM) provides this as a public service and does not accept advertisements.
Other information about prescription drugs may also be available. NLM regularly processes data files uploaded from FDA’s system and provides and maintains this Web site for the public to use in accessing the information. Additional information about medicines is available on NLM’s MedlinePlus Web site http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/medicines.html.
A recent article in NEJM comments that some of the informatiin does not get to clinicians fast enough. See Lost in transmission–FDA drug information that never reaches clinicians below:
- N Engl J Med. 2009 Oct 29;361(18):1717-20. Epub 2009 Oct 21.
- Schwartz LM, Woloshin S.
- Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice, Hanover, NH, USA.
- PMID: 19846841
- http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/short/361/18/1717
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