title: United States National Library of Medicine Drug Information Portal.
abstract: The Drug Information Portal is a free Web resource from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) that provides a user-friendly gateway to current information for more than 15,000 drugs. The site guides users to related resources of NLM, the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and other government agencies. Current drug-related information regarding consumer health, clinical trials, AIDS, MeSH pharmacological actions, MEDLINE/PubMed biomedical literature, and physical properties and structure is easily retrieved by searching on a drug name. A varied selection of focused topics in medicine and drugs is also available from displayed subject headings. This column provides background information about the Drug Information Portal, as well as search basics.
authors.affiliation: Division of Specialized Information Services, National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA. colette@nlm.nih.gov
authors.forename: Colette
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Hochstein
authors.forename: Jeanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Goshorn
authors.forename: Florence
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Chang
mesh_terms: D002986:Clinical Trials as Topic; D016208:Databases, Factual; D015386:Hazardous Substances; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval / Q000379:methods*; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations; D014481:United States
chemical_list: D015386:Hazardous Substances; D004364:Pharmaceutical Preparations