INQ 300 Powerful Medicine, How Do Drugs Affect Our Life? / Pharmaceuticals: Websites

Government website providing online health information resource for patients and their families and friends.

"A database of privately and publicly funded clinical studies conducted around the world."

"... an international, non-governmental, non-profit organization established jointly by WHO and UNESCO in 1949. CIOMS represents a substantial proportion of the biomedical scientific community through its member organizations, which include many of the biomedical disciplines, national academies of sciences and medical research councils. CIOMS mission is to advance public health through guidance on health research and policy including ethics, medical product development and safety. CIOMS is in official relations with WHO and is an associate partner of UNESCO."

A "global independent network of researchers, professionals, patients, carers, and people interested in health. Many ... contributors are world leaders in their fields - medicine, health policy, research methodology, or consumer advocacy."

" The Drug Industry Documents Archive (DIDA) was created by the University of California San Francisco Library in collaboration with faculty members C. Seth Landefeld, MD and Michael Steinman, MD. Originally established to house documents from an off-label marketing lawsuit against Parke-Davis (United States of America ex rel. David Franklin vs. Parke-Davis), the archive has grown to include documents from additional sources illustrating how the pharmaceutical industry, academic journals and institutions, continuing medical education organizations and regulatory/funding agencies operate in ways that influence public health." The mission is to "identify, collect, curate, preserve, and make freely accessible internal documents created by industries and their partners which have an impact on public health, for the benefit and use of policymakers, researchers, clinicians, educators, students, and the general public at UCSF and internationally."

An official website of the European Union.

"The International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering is a nonprofit association serving its Members by leading scientific, technical, and regulatory advancement throughout the entire pharmaceutical lifecycle."

"[Addresses] the rapid scientific developments in drug discovery associated technologies, but also the management, commercial and regulatory issues that increasingly play a part in how R&D is planned, structured and executed." Some content may require registration.

"Feature articles, research notes, legislation news, new drugs, home care, management, and pharmacy practice aimed at pharmacists."

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Produced by Boston Globe Media, STAT offers information about health, medicine, and the life sciences. STAT "produce daily news, investigative articles, and narrative projects in addition to multimedia features, podcasts, and opinion pieces."

this website is a good online resource for those who want to keep up with popular press news items; the popular articles "draw from reputable sources such as JAMA, British Medical Journal, & Lancet

including Science Friday programs

a mix of scientific articles and general information pieces... Information pieces are accessible to informed lay audiences who are interested in the life sciences.

aka "Science Tuesday" - weekly feature of the N.Y. Times newspaper

A source for health information: from breaking news on drugs to the top health headlines of the week, information on alternative therapies to using herbs and home remedies for common ailments. Content is produced by Joe Graedon, a pharmacologist, and Terry Graedon, a medical anthropologist.