Palmer College of Chiropractic

David D. Palmer
Health Sciences Library

Pharmacology Subject Guide

Associations and Directories

• American Association of Pharmaceutical Scientists (AAPS)
  Provides information on pharmaceutical meetings, careers, and publications.

• American Pharmacists Association (APHA)
  Covers consumer information, drug recalls, publications, and professional development in the area of pharmacy.

• Pediatric Pharmacy Advocacy Group (PPAG)
  Purpose is to provide children safe and effective medication through education, communication, and research.

Internet Guides and Resources

• Antibiotic Guide
  Allows users to search medications by diagnosis, pathogen, and by antibiotic.

• CenterWatch: Drugs Approved by the FDA
  Lists approval years and allows users to search by medical subject.

• DrugDigest
  Site is non-commercial and designed to help consumers make informed choices about drugs and treatment options.

• Drug Discrimination Bibliographic Database
  Lists over 3,500 references published between 1951-present.

• Drug Facts and Comparisons
  Offers users drug information, product information, drug news, and new drug approvals.

• FDA Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
  Site includes patient safety news, drug application process, and regulatory and scientific guidelines.

• MedlinePlus: Drug Information
  Offers extensive information on prescription and nonprescription drugs.

• RXLIST
  Allows users to search drugs alphabetically by name or by disease.

• WebMD Health Drugs & Herbs
  This database offers consumers an alphabetical listing of prescription drugs and herbal supplements.

Print Books on Pharmacology

• AHFS drug information: essentials 2004-05 / editor, Gerald K. McEvoy. REF RS125 .A563 2004

• Drug interaction facts / editor, David S. Tatro. REF RM302 .D76 2004

• ImmunoFacts : vaccines and immunologic drugs / John D. Grabenstein. REF RM281.G73 2004

• Modell's drugs in current use and new drugs. REF RS79 .D7

• Mosby’s Drug Consult. REF RS55.2 .M67 2004

• PDR drug guide for mental health professionals / foreword by Ronald J. Comer ; [editor David W. Sifton]

• The essential guide to prescription drugs/ James J. Rybacki. REF RM302.5 .R92 2004

• The Merck index: an encyclopedia of chemicals, drugs, and biologicals. REF RS51 .M4 2001

• The pill book / editor-in-chief, Harold M. Silverman. REF RS51 .P55 2004

• Understanding pharmacology for health professionals / Susan M. Turley. RM300 .T85 2003

Electronic Books

• The Psychopharmacology of Herbal Medicine: Plant drugs that alter mind, brain, and behavior/ Marcello Spinella (netLibrary)

• The Selection and Use of Essential Medicines/ World Health Organization (netLibrary)

Print Journals

• FDA consumer. HD9000.9.U5 A1735

• The Medical letter on drugs and therapeutics. RM300 .M42

Electronic Journals

• Behavioural Pharmacology (LWW) 

• Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology (LWW)

• Journal of Physiology and Pharmacology (DOAJ)

• Pharmacology (Academic Search Premier)

• The Internet Journal of Pharmacology (Academic Search Premier

Audio Visual

• Chiropractic [videorecording]: health without drugs / produced by Louis Sportelli; Practice Makers Products, Inc. production. RZ244 VI 975