[How to use medical and drug information: view of integrated information handling].
It has become very easy to import drugs from overseas due to the spread of the Internet, and this has made the construction of a country-wide system that ensures safety a complicated matter. Although drug information and side-effect information databases are widely used, what is the situation concerning non-medicinal health foods that find their way into Japan from overseas? If the harmful effects of unknown substances can be prevented, it will be very beneficial. I would like to discuss these problems from the point of view of handling medical information.
Section of Development and Management, Bibliographic Service Division, NPO Japan Medical Abstracts Society, 2-5-18 Takaido-higashi, Suginami-ku, Tokyo, Japan.
Hayato
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Toyotama
D003257:Consumer Product Safety; D016208:Databases, Factual; D004346:Drug Information Services / Q000639:trends; D064420:Drug-Related Side Effects and Adverse Reactions; D058870:Food, Organic; D006801:Humans; D020407:Internet; D007564:Japan