Useful Pharmacy Web Resources

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Abbreviations & Acronyms

• Acronym Finder external website
• Common Medical Abbreviations external website

Complementary & Alternative Medicine

• National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine external website
• The Longwood Herbal Task Force external website
• PubMed Dietary Supplement Subset external website
• Quackwatch external website

Consumer Health & Wellness

• Healthfinder external website
• Oncolink external website
• Mayo Clinic Health Information external website

Dictionaries

• MedlinePlus Medical Dictionary external website
• Drug Slang Code Words (.pdf)

Drugs

• NLM Drug Information Portal external website
• RxList- The Internet Drug Index external website
• The Orange Book external website
• The Green Book external website
• FDA New Drug Approvals Reports external website
• FDA Development and Approval Process (CBER) external website
• Pill Identifier external website

Federal Government Sites

• Food and Drug Administration external website
• DailyMed external website

Literature Databases

• PubMed external website
• NICE - National Institute for Health & Care Excellence (UK) external website

State Government Sites

• Pennsylvania Bulletin external website
• Pennsylvania Code external website
• Pennsylvania Pharmacy Act (.pdf)
• Pennsylvania Drug Equivalency/Substitution Laws & Regulations (.pdf)
• Pennsylvania State Board of Pharmacy external website