title: New drug information resources for pharmacists at the National Library of Medicine.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To provide an overview of selected drug information-related databases of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), with a focus on newer resources that support the professional information needs of pharmacists and other health care providers.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  NLM, which is the world's largest medical library, provides an array of bibliographic, factual, and evidence-based drug, herbal remedy, and dietary supplement information resources. Five of the more recently introduced online resources include areas of particular importance to pharmacists, including a repository of current product labeling/package inserts, with automated search links to associated information resources; a portal to drug information that allows pharmacists to search multiple databases simultaneously and link to related medication and health care information resources; authoritative information on the effects of medications, herbal remedies, and dietary supplements in nursing infants and their mothers; comprehensive information, including a case registry, on the potential for liver toxicity due to drugs, herbal remedies, and dietary supplements; and a pill identification system with two intuitive search methodologies.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  NLM provides several clinical-scientific drug information resources that are particularly useful in meeting the professional information needs of pharmacists.
authors.forename: James E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Knoben
authors.forename: Steven J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Phillips
mesh_terms: D016208:Databases, Factual; D004346:Drug Information Services; D006282:Health Personnel; D006801:Humans; D009317:National Library of Medicine (U.S.); D010595:Pharmacists; D014481:United States