This is something worth exploring.
The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the
scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much, unless
they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture the full list
of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious task (esp
considering they may keep on getting them
updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy would be
to expand whatever is available and add more generic/scientific compound
name into wikipedia or a separate pharmacology/pharmacopeia section
under wikipedia.
Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go.
Abhi
On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote:
I am not familiar with the online availability of
pharmaceutical
information of drugs made in India. Do websites of manufacturers not
list the drugs they make? Is there any issue with citing the
manufacturer's list of drugs?
What about online pharmacopeia? Do Indian associations not list the
drugs made in India? It seems to me this is a very basic requirement,
the lack of which (if correct) can be addressed by an RTI to the
Ministry of Health, possible bringing about a solution within months.
A very similar action could happen with indigenous pharmacopeia, but
there may be genuine difficulty with an authoritative source for the
medicines/manufacturers/vendors/formulations, as the regulations for
these may not be of the same order. Again, there is no logical reason
why this situation should be permitted or encouraged to continue - it
is in our own interest to see it improve. Oral citations may be the
way forward.
2011/11/22 ViswaPrabha (?????????) <viswaprabha(a)gmail.com
<mailto:viswaprabha@gmail.com>>
User: Netha Hussain +1
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain
<nethahussain(a)gmail.com <mailto:nethahussain@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi all,
I am a 3rd year student of medicine from Kerala.Though I work on
ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing pharmacology-related
articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same
insufficiency you
mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles covering various
drugs
their actions and side effects, but most often they are not
useful to
the public as these articles do not contain the proprietary(trade)
names of the drugs.
Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are those from
the US or
UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia is such
that if
an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page of a drug, it
gets deleted soon because of notability reasons. People often
search
for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know the
generic names
of the same. The end result is that those looking for information
about a particular drug on google end up reaching sites other than
Wikipedia.
Projects of this kind are something I am looking forward to.
Though I
am still a student, I would like to get invloved in this
project(or
similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it.
Regards
User: Netha Hussain
On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally
<radhakrishna.arvapally(a)gmail.com
<mailto:radhakrishna.arvapally@gmail.com>> wrote:
Hi,
Some time back I was looking for some drug information
(which was in my
doctor's prescription).
Then I was thinking why that information was not there in
wikipedia.
I found few wonderful sites which gives that kind
of
information.
my doctor.
collected lots of info from various sources and
added to
wikipedia. And I
was hoping I can add few more drugs when ever I
visit a
doctor. later my
article was deleted quoting advertising of my own
product.
I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would help in understanding
composition, use, side effects of each drug.
Incubation of such project would be helpful.
I found the following website which use wikipedia's logo
too. I am
sure
this is nothing to do with wikimedia foundation
project.
(see the copyright
in the bottom)
http://wikidrugs.org/
It is imitation of wikipedia.
--
Thanks & Regards,
A.Radha Krishna
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna
--
Netha Hussain
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