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The Scout Report September 13, 1996
A Publication of Net Scout Services
Computer Science Department, University of Wisconsin
A Project of the InterNIC
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The Scout Report is a weekly publication offering a selection of new and
newly discovered Internet resources of interest to researchers and
educators, the InterNIC's primary audience. However, everyone is welcome
to subscribe to one of the mailing lists (plain text or HTML).
Visit our web site for a fully linked and searchable version of this
and all previous Scout Reports, as well as subscription information:
http://www.cs.wisc.edu/scout/report/
http://www.rxlist.com/
There are two aspects of this drug information site that make it
distinctively useful: first, it uses fuzzy logic as well as wildcard
searching, just in case your spelling of long chemical names is imperfect;
second, it's free. Don't let the simplicity of the search form fool you;
while the searching is easy, it's also powerful. Search results come in the
form of a listing of brand name, generic name, and category; more
information on many of the drugs in the database, and on all of the 200 most
frequently prescribed drugs in America, is available through links in the
search results listing. The interactions database is particularly useful,
since it can either search for interactions among categories of drugs or
between a particular drug (that the user enters) and all of the
200 most frequently prescribed drugs at once (this search uses the Alta Vista
search engine to generate results). Users may also display these most
frequently prescribed drugs as an alphabetical or ranked list.
You're Welcome...
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