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Drug Names - Websites???

Posted By: Amy on 2006-11-08
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Subject: Drug Names - Websites???

I hope you all can help! I am in search of a good website to distinguish drug names. I am looking specifically to be able to distinguish brand names from generic and am interested in which should be capitalized, and which not? Any good sites out there that aren't all lists with all drug names starting in caps even though they shouldn't be?

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Drug Names - Websites??? - Amy
- medword.com........ a good one for that - MsMT
- drugs dot com............. - no message.............
- Thanks! - Amy
- Here are 3 of my favorites. sm - Txczech
- drugdigest.org - CAMT
- Rxlist.com nm - Jai

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