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Information on Drugs The Food and Drug Administration is the U.S. government agency responsible for ensuring the safety and effectiveness of all drugs. After a clinical trial, it looks at the evidence to determine if a new drug or treatment is safe to approve as a marketable new product and is an improvement over the standard therapy (See Approved Drugs). FDA web sites provide valuable information to consumers on its activities in regulation and approval of drugs. http://www.fda.gov/ NeedyMeds is a good source of information for people who need help with the cost of medicine and other healthcare expenses. http://www.needymeds.com FDA provides the following general information about newly approved prescription drugs: Information on how drugs are developed in the U.S., read ³From Test Tube to Participant: New Drug Development in the U.S.,² third Edition, September, 1999: http://www.fda.gov/cder/about/whatwedo/testtube.pdf Consumer information about drugs approved since 1998: http://www.fda.gov/cder/consumerinfo/ Information on products regulated by FDA: http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/ New and generic drug approvals since 1988: http://www.fda.gov/cder/approval/ FAQs to CDER: http://www.fda.gov/cder/about/faq/ The FDA Electronic Orange Book, which gives current approved drug products: http://www.fda.gov/cder/ob/ MEDLINEplus Drug Information. MEDLINEplus Guide to over 9,000 Prescription and over-the-counter medications: http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/druginformation.html U.S. National Library of Medicine, Contact NLM Customer Service National Institutes of Health, Department of Health & Human Services Copyright and Privacy Poly, Freedom of Information Act, Acccesibility  |
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