NLM Drug Information Portal

Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal is a quick and easy-to-use gateway to selected drug information resources from the National Library of Medicine (NLM) and major governmental agencies. Coverage includes over 12,000 drugs, spanning from their entry into clinical trials, through FDA approval, and into the marketplace.

  • Resources in this portal include MEDLINEPlus, PubMed, ClinicalTrials.gov, DailyMed, Dietary Supplements Database, LactMed, HSDB, PubChem, Drugs@FDA and AIDSInfo.
  • Information can be located for the intended audience, such as consumer or researcher or by its class, such as prescription or over-the-counter.
  • A search can be completed using a drug’s trade name or generic name.
  • Not all experimental drugs or untested folk remedies are covered in this portal.

For more information on this resource see the NLM Drug Information Portal FAQs.

~ Charlie Wessel

Posted in the 2008 Issue