Resources for researching medications

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Deranged Physiology
A website to help medical students study for intensive care exams:
https://derangedphysiology.com/main/home

Sider 4.1
A website that draws on multiple sources to list side effects for medications (only up to 2015):
http://sideeffects.embl.de/

DrugBank
A website that gives information on medications, including history, mechanism of action, half life:
https://go.drugbank.com/

 

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One handy feature on DrugBank is that you can use metadata to see other drugs with similar properties, e.g. vasodilating agents:
https://go.drugbank.com/categories/DBCAT003676

Scroll down to the bottom of the page for an individual drug and look for the section “Drug categories”.