Martindale: The Complete Drug Reference

The 37th Edition can now be purchased as a print and online package. The price includes one print copy plus one year single-user online access to the content of Martindale via MedicinesComplete, with quarterly updates.

Provides healthcare professionals with reliable, unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines used throughout the world. Based on published information and extensively referenced, Martindale develops as the body of knowledge on existing drugs grows; new drugs emerge; new preparations are launched; and old preparations are abandoned, reformulated, or redefined.

Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines:

* Over 6,000 drug monographs
* Over 160,000 preparations
* Over 54,000 reference citations
* Over 15,000 manufacturers
* Synopses of disease treatments
* List of proprietary preparations from 41 countries and regions
* 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

Martindale represents a global view, providing information on proprietary preparations from 41 countries and regions. Since pharmacists may be requested to fill prescriptions issued in other countries, Martindale represents a critical tool for identification of the local equivalent of the prescribed drug - perhaps available under a different name - and for assessing what alternatives might be suitable

Changes for 37th edition:

* Extensively revised
* Expanded coverage of drug synonyms to include more names from Russia
* Coverage of proprietary preparations expanded to 41 countries and regions, now including Ukraine
* Herbal ATC codes added
* UNII codes added (FDA's Unique Ingredient Identifiers)
* Over 200 new monographs
* New multilingual lexicon of pharmaceutical terms that may be encountered on prescriptions
* Chapters reorganised - a new chapter on Pharmaceutical Excipients, which includes 40 new monographs, has been created from the following chapters:

- Colouring Agents
- Nonionic Surfactants
- Organic Solvents
- Paraffins and Similar Bases
- Soaps and Other Anionic Surfactants
- Stabilising and Suspending

Published in two cased volumes: Volume I: Preface and Monographs
Volume II: Proprietary preparations, manufacturers' contact information, index

Martindale
Das weltweit genutzte Standard-Nachschlagewerk für Arzneistoffe.

Vollständig aktualisiert bietet der Martindale im detaillierten und übersichtlichen Stil seine objektiven Bewertungen und enzyklopädischen Informationen zu Wirk- und Hilfsstoffen der Human- und Veterinärmedizin, Stoffen in klinischer Erprobung und Giftstoffen.
Besonderheiten des Martindale sind neben den grundlegend überarbeiteten und zahlreichen neu aufgenommenen Monographien

* Informationen der großen internationalen Pharmakopöen (Ph.Eur., USP, BP) und des USP National Formulary
* besonders gekennzeichnete Stoffe/Zubereitungen, deren Anwendung im Leistungssport behördlich eingeschränkt ist
* Herstellerverzeichnis mit aktuellen Web-Adressen
* INNs in englischer, französischer, lateinischer, spanischer und russischer Sprache
* Strukturformeln für ausgewählte Arzneistoffe