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Quick Access to Drug Information Now Available from Piribo.
Piribo, the online destination for business intelligence for the biopharma industry, has added another key pharmaceuticals industry reference manual to its collection.
LONDON, UK (PRWEB) October 22, 2004 -- Drugs: Synonyms and Properties is a key reference manual, available either in book or CD-ROM form, which provides comprehensive coverage of the 10,000 drugs currently in common use worldwide. Its overall organisation and inclusion of detailed chemical information fills an important gap in drug information.
The manual organises around 10,000 drugs currently in use into 204 therapeutic categories, allowing the user to review quickly and easily all drugs in a given category, comparing their relative properties. In addition, there is extensive coverage of synonyms, listing over 30,000 drug synonyms and trade names, with a cross-reference to their main entry. This extraordinarily comprehensive view of trade names and generic synonyms makes Drugs: Synonyms and Properties one of the world's most exhaustive references in its field.
The following information is provided for each main entry:
• chemical name and a list of trade names and synonyms;
• the Chemical Abstracts Service (CAS) Registry Number;
• the European Inventory of Existing Commercial Chemical Substances (EINECS) Number;
• the Merck Index (Twelfth Edition) Number;
• the physical properties of each compound;
• the known biological activity and indicated applications.
This reference will be invaluable to research chemists, biologists, and physicians and anyone interested in drugs, who will be able to find quickly a thumbnail sketch of the essential information concerning an agent just from knowing a single synonym for that drug,
Drugs: Synonyms and Properties is available from Piribo. For more information visit:
http://www.piribo.com/publications/prescription_drugs/drugs_cd.html
About Piribo.
Piribo is the source for information products concerning the global biotechnology and pharmaceutical industries and contains details of hundreds of business information studies, market reports and books. Piribo has ongoing relationships with leading market research and publishing companies, so we can offer a current and comprehensive range of specialised intelligence.
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