Unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines used throughout the world.

No other source has the breadth and depth of coverage. Features include:


• Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines
• 5,820 drug monographs
• 146,000 preparations
• 47,750 reference citations
• 13,000 manufacturers
• Synopses of disease treatments
• Enables identification of medicines, the local equivalent and the manufacturer
• Includes herbals, diagnostic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients, toxins, and poisons, as well as drugs and medicines
• Based on published information and extensively referenced



The most recent update - September 2009 - features:

• Over 260 new monographs, including Crofelemer, Curcuminoids, Eldecalcitol, Elocalcitol, Eslicarbazepine and Eslicarbazepine Acetate, Iloperidone, Primary CNS Lymphoma, Teduglutide, and more
• Many chapters have been reorganized to better reflect the clinical use of drugs
• Revised chapters and chapter sections, including Antibacterials: Antimycobacterials, Lincosamides, Tetracyclines, Antineoplastics, Antiprotozoals, Anxiolytic Sedatives Hypnotics and Antipsychotics, Cardiovascular Drugs, Gastrointestinal Drugs, Supplementary Drugs and Other Substances, and more
• Chapters on Prostaglandins and Hypothalamics have also been reorganized and their contents added to new chapters on: Obstetric Drugs; Growth Hormone and its Modulators
• The chapter on Sex Hormones has been enlarged and renamed “Sex Hormones and their Modulators”
• Increase in synonyms from Russia, and new synonyms from Poland and Turkey
• Veterinary ATC codes added
• Coverage of proprietary preparations expanded to 40 countries, now including Indonesia, the Philippines, Poland and Turkey