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Clinical Pharmacology
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- Facts & Comparisons 4.0
Facts & Comparisons 4.0 (formerly known as eFacts) provides online access to Drug Facts and Comparisons®, Drug Interaction FactsTM, The Review of Natural Products® and Med Facts: Patient Information. Drug information, interactions, herbal information, and patient medication handouts are seamlessly updated and can be customized to suit your needs. - Lexi-Comp Online
Provides content in the following areas: drug information and interactions, laboratory and diagnostic tests, natural products, infectious diseases, and poisoning & toxicology. Lexi-Comp Online is updated daily providing you with the most up-to-date information at the point of care. (Source: vendor website.) - Micromedex
- Contains the Micromedex databases: POISINDEX, DRUGDEX, PDR, Martindale, and Drug-Reax, and the drug information tools: Martindales, PDR, Material safety data sheets prepared by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, and Index nominum.
Search one of the following databases.
- PubMed (MEDLINE)
PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 14 million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other related resources. - International Pharmaceutical Abstracts
International Pharmaceutical Abstracts is produced by the American Society of Health-System Pharmacists and includes information from over 750 pharmaceutical, medical, and
health-related journals published worldwide since 1970. The database covers the entire spectrum of drug therapy and pharmaceutical information so researchers such as
toxicologists, those in cosmetic companies, medical librarians and health practitioners can easily locate the answers to any drug-related problems that they encounter. Topics
covered include information on biopharmaceutics & pharmacokinetics, new drug delivery systems, pharmacist liability, legal, political & ethical issues, and many others.
Examples of titles covered in IPA include: America's Pharmacist (USA), American Journal of Health-System Pharmacy (USA), British Medical Journal (England), Clinical Drug
Investigation (New Zealand), Clinical Pharmacokinetics (New Zealand), International Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (Germany), International Journal of
Pharmaceutical Compounding (USA), International Journal of Pharmaceutics (Netherlands), etc. A unique feature of abstracts included for clinical studies is the inclusion of the study design, number of patients, dosage, dosage forms, and dosage schedule. (Source: vendor website.) - BIOSIS Previews
BIOSIS Previews is a comprehensive biological sciences product that is available via the ISI Web of Knowledge® platform. Updated weekly, it combines the content from Biological Abstracts® and Biological Abstracts/RRM® (Reports, Reviews, Meetings) with the speed, flexibility, and easy navigation of the ISI Web of Science. BIOSIS Previews provides approximately 19 million records from nearly 6,000 life sciences journals and non-journal literature, including conferences, meetings, symposia, review articles, U.S. patents, books, book chapters, and software reviews. (Source: vendor website)
Journals
Check the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog to see if the library has an electronic and/or print subscription to a journal. For assistance, see: Finding Journals at the Health Sciences Library.
Below are some highly relevant journals for clinical pharmacology.
British journal of clinical pharmacology
Clinical and experimental pharmacology & physiology
Clinical pharmacology & therapeutics
Clinical therapeutics
European journal of clinical pharmacology
Journal of clinical pharmacology
Pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety
Pharmacology & therapeutics
Books & Other Publications
Many books and other publications are now available online. The Library subscribes to a number of
book packages as well as individual titles that may be of interest:
Packages
STAT!REF
netLibrary
NCBI Bookshelf
Books@Ovid
Online Books
AHFS Drug Information
Basic & Clinical Pharmacology
Drugs in Pregnancy and Lactation
Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Therapy: Clinical Pharmacology
Please search or browse the UNC Health Sciences Library's Electronic Books in the Health Sciences for additional titles.
Search the UNC-Chapel Hill Catalog for books and journal titles in print or electronic format.
- Use subject headings such as pharmacology, clinical pharmacology, drug therapy, and drug development.
Browse the Collection: Call number ranges for pharmacology are QV
and for drugs are QV 1-370.
Organizations
- American College of Clinical Pharmacology
- Founded in 1969, the American College of Clinical Pharmacology (ACCP) is composed of around 1,000 professionals, ranging from physicians (39%) to PhDs and PharmDs (48%) and to other professionals actively engaged in the teaching and conduct of clinical pharmacology.
- American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics
- The American Society for Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics (ASCPT) was founded in 1900, and consists of over 2,200 professionals whose primary interests are to promote and advance the science of human pharmacology and therapeutics, and to maintain the highest standards of research, education, and exchange of scientific information in accordance with the appropriate accrediting bodies.
- American Board of Clinical Pharmacology, Inc.
- The major objectives of the American Board of Clinical Pharmacology (ABCP) are: 1) to evaluate the training credentials, the scientific research and teaching accomplishments of individuals, 2) to prepare and administer examinations for individual certification in clinical and applied pharmacology, and 3) to register and accredit training programs in clinical pharmacology.
- American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics
- The American Society for Pharmacology and Experimental Therapeutics (ASPET) was formed in 1908 with the goal of promoting the growth of pharmacology and experimental therapeutics and facilitating personal communication among investigators in these branches of science.
Conferences
- Doctor's Guide to Medical Conferences & Meetings: Clinical Pharmacology
- Part of the Doctor's Guide web site, contains a list of conferences relating to clinical pharmacology.
Training Programs in Clinical Pharmacology
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ClinPRAT
- The National Institutes of Health offers a training program, the Clinical Pharmacology Research Associate
(ClinPRAT) Program, for medically qualified individuals who wish to acquire specialized clinical and
laboratory training in the pharmacological sciences.
- National Institute of General Medical
Sciences (NIGMS)
- NIGMS, a component of the National Institutes of Health, provides a list of research
institutes that have training programs in clinical pharmacology.
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