FAQ: International Drug Information

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Ask your doctor or pharmacist about the drug.  The following resources may also be helpful.

National Library of Medicine resources:

• MedlinePlus Drugs, Supplements, and Herbal Information
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html
  
  
• DailyMed provides the prescription drug package insert information.
  http://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/about.cfm
  
  
• MEDLINE/PubMed or TOXNET for references to professional journal articles. For more information, see:
  
  MEDLINE Fact Sheet at
  http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/medline.html
  
  TOXLINE Fact Sheet at http://www.nlm.nih.gov/pubs/factsheets/toxlinfs.html
  

Specific Country/Regional Resources:

• Web site for medicines authorities in the European Union and Norway, Iceland, Liechtenstein at 
  http://www.hma.eu/66.html
  
  
• Drug and food safety organizations by country from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration at
  http://www.fda.gov/oia/agencies.htm
  
  
• Australia:
  Australian Prescription Products Guide (free link to consumer information; must subscribe to view other medicine information)
  http://www.appgonline.com.au/
  
  Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA)
  http://www.tga.gov.au/index.htm
  
  
• Canada:
  MediResource Prescription Drug Library
  http://www.mediresource.com/e/health/drug.asp
  
  Health Canada's Drug Product Database
  http://www.hc-sc.gc.ca/hpb/drugs-dpd/
  
  
• European Union (EU):
  European Agency for the Evaluation of Medicinal Products (select List of Authorized Products, then drug name for Product Information Leaflets in several languages) http://www.emea.europa.eu/index/indexh1.htm
  
  
• Hong Kong (China):
  Compendium of Pharmaceutical Products, Hong Kong Department of Health
  http://www.info.gov.hk/pharmser/Reg_ir/download_pharm.html
  
  
• Malaysia:
  List of Registered Products , Drug Control Authority, Ministry of Health Malaysia
  http://www.bpfk.gov.my/Search/Search_product.asp
  
  
• New Zealand:
  Medsafe, New Zealand Medicines and Medical Devices Safety Authority
  http://www.medsafe.govt.nz/
  
  
• South Africa:
  South African Electronic Package Inserts
  http://home.intekom.com/pharm/
  
  
• United Kingdom:
  electronic Medicines Compendium (eMC)
  http://emc.medicines.org.uk 

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Last reviewed: 25 August 2008
Last updated: 25 August 2008
First published: 01 January 2000
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