Treatment-related HIV/AIDS Internet Resources [Disclaimer]
Links to sites solely containing information on medicine, including alternative medicine, supplements, and herbs.Drug Information
http://www.drugs.com
Provides drug information similar to the PDR. This site is powered by three independent leading medical-information suppliers: Physiciansà Desk Reference, Cerner Multum and Thomson Micromedex. Individual drug (or drug-class) information content compiled by these sources is delivered complete and unaltered by Drugs.com.
http://www.pdrhealth.com/drug_info/index.html
Searchable database of drugs, prescription, OTC, herbal medicine, or nutrition supplements for full text information. Same information as in the PDR Family Guides to Prescription Drugs and Women's Health and Encyclopedia of Medical Care. Other highlights are full-text Magazine Archives (13 titles, mostly free, back to 1996) and Info about Doctors (includes Fertility Clinic comparisons). Requires registration but Basic Plan is free.
http://www.phrma.org/ (main)
http://www.phrma.org/newmedicines/aids/ (AIDS section)
This database includes the leading US pharmaceutical companiesà medications currently in development. You can search by disease or company. Each result contains the drug name, indications addressed, company information, and development status. You can learn about 82 new medicines in development for HIV/AIDS. Also in Spanish.
Alternative and Complementary Medicine
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/altm.html (main)
http://www.pitt.edu/~cbw/hiv.html (HIV/AIDS section)
Directory of web sites for alternative medicine information. Extensive HIV/AIDS section.
http://www.herbmed.org/index.asp
Database of evidence-based entries to 45 herbs. More available for fee. One can type HIV or AIDS in the search box and all herbs that correspond to a clinical trail will be returned in order of relevance.
http://nccam.nih.gov/health/
NCCAM conducts research and disseminates information to practitioners and the public. Links to Information Resources include the CAM Citation Index, a browsable, searchable subset of the MEDLINE database (1963-1999) including 180,000+ citations.
http://ods.od.nih.gov/
The International Bibliographic Information on Dietary Supplements (IBIDS) is a database of published, international, scientific literature on dietary supplements, including vitamins, minerals, and botanicals. IBIDS is produced by the Office of Dietary Supplements (ODS) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to assist the public, health care providers, educators, and researchers in locating credible, scientific information on dietary supplements. IBIDS was developed and will be maintained through an interagency partnership with the Food and Nutrition Information Center, National Agricultural Library, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Citations are currently drawn from MEDLINE (biomedical), AGRICOLA (botanical and agricultural science), and AGRIS (agricultural science worldwide).