Pharmacy: Safety; Health Statistics; Package inserts

Welcome to the LibGuide for Pharmacy. This Library Guide will provide you with a One Stop service to assist you in your studies or research at the NWU.

Package inserts / Labels

DailyMed
Drugs@FDA
South African electronic package inserts
Dietary Supplement Label Database (DSLD)

Health statistics

Demographic and health surveys
FastStats A-Z (Data for the US)
Global health data exchange
National Center for Health Statistics (CDC)
National Library of Medicine (NLM). Data, tools and statistics
Statistics South Africa
WHO - Global health observatory
WHO - World health statistics 2013

Safety in the laboratory

ChemIDplus (NLM)
NIOSH pocket guide to chemical hazards
OSHA occupational chemical database
TOXNET: toxicology data network
Where to find Material Safety Data Sheets on the internet (Compiled by Interactive Learning Paradigms, Inc)

Useful information

Mednar
Search engine for medical sciences
NIST chemistry webbook
This site provides thermochemical, thermophysical, and ion energetics data compiled by NIST under the Standard Reference Data Program
WolframAlpha (Computational knowledge engine)
WolframAlpha introduces a fundamentally new way to get knowledge and answers—not by searching the web, but by doing dynamic computations based on a vast collection of built-in data, algorithms, and methods.

Suggestions

This is a work in progress. Please feel free to email subject librarian with any suggestions on new resources or links, to improve this LibGuide.