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Re: Public Domain Drug Database?



On 24 Jan 2002, Elizabeth Barham wrote:

> I've been toying with the idea of writing a medication rating system
> that is an online web application in which users are able to give
> comments about medications that they have used. One of it's features
> is to allow people to enter in new medications if it is not currently
> available. For this, though, they must enter in certain requirements,
> such as the name of the drug and it's manufacturer.
I'm no expert in the field of medicine (I'm physicist by profession) but
I would have real problems if this information would be reliable if
anybody could enter new data.

I personally doubt that this could lead to a good information resource
but you are the expert.

Kind regards

       Andreas.



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