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This is something worth exploring.<br>
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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.<br>
<br>
Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go.<br>
<br>
Abhi<br>
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On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote:
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cite="mid:CACRkhvpoSVHX05ts=rTaUhnFcBZJD1yDcjeD_K+w77OAQGofRQ@mail.gmail.com"
type="cite">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?
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<div>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.</div>
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<div>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. <br>
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<div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42,
Netha Hussain <span dir="ltr"><<a
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href="mailto:nethahussain@gmail.com"
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Hi all,<br>
<br>
I am a 3rd year student of medicine from
Kerala.Though I work on<br>
ml.wikipedia, I have recently started editing
pharmacology-related<br>
articles on en.wikipedia. I have noticed the same
insufficiency you<br>
mentioned. On Wikipedia, we do have articles
covering various drugs<br>
their actions and side effects, but most often they
are not useful to<br>
the public as these articles do not contain the
proprietary(trade)<br>
names of the drugs.<br>
Most of the trade names listed in Wikipedia are
those from the US or<br>
UK. Presently, the state of things in en.wikipedia
is such that if<br>
an Indian trade name is added to the Wikipedia page
of a drug, it<br>
gets deleted soon because of notability reasons.
People often search<br>
for the trade names on Wikipedia as they do not know
the generic names<br>
of the same. The end result is that those looking
for information<br>
about a particular drug on google end up reaching
sites other than<br>
Wikipedia.<br>
<br>
Projects of this kind are something I am looking
forward to. Though I<br>
am still a student, I would like to get invloved in
this project(or<br>
similar projects) if ever we plan to launch it.<br>
<br>
Regards<br>
User: Netha Hussain<br>
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On 11/20/11, RadhaKrishna Arvapally <<a
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href="mailto:radhakrishna.arvapally@gmail.com"
target="_blank">radhakrishna.arvapally@gmail.com</a>>
wrote:<br>
> Hi,<br>
><br>
><br>
> Some time back I was looking for some drug
information (which was in my<br>
> doctor's prescription).<br>
> Then I was thinking why that information
was not there in wikipedia.<br>
> I found few wonderful sites which gives
that kind of information.<br>
><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN"
target="_blank">http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN</a><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.nlm.nih.gov/" target="_blank">http://www.nlm.nih.gov/</a><br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://www.webmd.com" target="_blank">http://www.webmd.com</a><br>
><br>
> I searched on google for information on a
drug prescribed by my doctor.<br>
> collected lots of info from various sources
and added to wikipedia. And I<br>
> was hoping I can add few more drugs when
ever I visit a doctor. later my<br>
> article was deleted quoting advertising of
my own product.<br>
><br>
> I was thinking some kind of wikiDrug would
help in understanding<br>
> composition, use, side effects of each
drug.<br>
> Incubation of such project would be
helpful.<br>
><br>
> I found the following website which use
wikipedia's logo too. I am sure<br>
> this is nothing to do with wikimedia
foundation project. (see the copyright<br>
> in the bottom)<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://wikidrugs.org/" target="_blank">http://wikidrugs.org/</a><br>
><br>
> It is imitation of wikipedia.<br>
><br>
> --<br>
> Thanks & Regards,<br>
> A.Radha Krishna<br>
> <a moz-do-not-send="true"
href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna"
target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Arkrishna</a><br>
><br>
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