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 (വിശ്വപ്രഭ) <viswaprabha(a)gmail.com>
User: Netha Hussain +1
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain <nethahussain(a)gmail.com>wrote;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>
> 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.
> >
> >
http://www.mims.com/index.aspx?Ctry=IN
> >
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/
> >
http://www.webmd.com
> >
> > I searched on google for information on a drug prescribed by 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
> *nethahussain.blogspot.com
> swethaambari.wordpress.com*
>
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