Re: Public Domain Drug Database?

[Andrew Ho <aho@superego.bic.uci.edu>]

On 24 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote:
...
> Do you think that drug manufacturers would be willing to help us with
> the raw data?

Elizabeth,
  I think this is called the PDR. The publisher does derive revenue from
the publication of the PDR and I am not sure they will be interested in
putting that revenue stream at risk.

> That is, if we explain to them the project and it's goals and just
> simply ask, "May we please have the raw prescribing information in an
> ASCII format?" that they may oblidge? Ask and you shall receive.

There is no harm in trying but I think the PDR publisher already came
up with the same idea.

Best regards,

Andrew
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