Warner Memorial Library Eastern University 1300

Eagle Road St. Davids, PA 19087

Presentation by: Malinda Shannon, Library Research

Assistant Mark D. Puterbaugh, Information Services

Librarian (mputerba@eastern.edu)

The Portal has interfaces for

healthcare professionals, researchers,

librarians, and other interested

parties.

The drug information is pulled from a number of government agencies including the Food & Drug Administration and the National Cancer Institute.

In the search form we type “Primatene Mist” and press

“Go”.

The information concerning the

active ingredient “epinephrine” is

displayed in three categories;

summary, detailed summary, and

additional resources.

Passing the mouse pointer over the link

displays a brief description of the type of

information available from the result.

We follow the Medline Plus link, a consumer health

service of the National Library of

Medicine.

While this displays

information concerning epinephrine injections,

there is data here

concerning possible

effects the use of the drug

may cause.

Under the detailed summary, “Toxline” can display citations for some journal articles indexed in Pubmed on epinephrine.

PubChem provides detailed information

on the chemical structure of the drug.

This is a resource which

searches across all government

agencies.

Under additional

resources we follow a link to

USASearch.gov

There is also a link

to Drugs@FDA.

This link includes dosage

forms for the official drug,

label information, and approval

history, letters,

reviews, and related

documents.