Article: 2004 USP Dictionary of USAN and International Drug Names is available.(Industry News)

Article: 'Poligeenan' is new name given non-food grade seaweed extract.
PR Newswire;  January 30, 1989 ;     581 words ... ... fractions derived from red seaweed extracts. Poligeenan is characterized in the new 1988 edition of "USAN and USP Dictionary of Drug Names" and the August 1988 "Journal of Clinical Pharmacology and Therapeutics." According to David W. Manning ...

Article: USAN database on STN. (U.S. Adopted Names)
Information Today;  November 1, 1993 ;     557 words ...The USAN database, which includes U.S. Adopted Names and the U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP) Dictionary of Drug Names, will soon be available exclusively on STN International. The database, produced by the U.S. Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc ...

Article: Tall Man Drug Names Added to Medi-Span Electronic ...
Business Wire;  March 28, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... Errors Resulting from Similar-Sounding Drug Names, Providing Greater Patient Safety Wolters ... announced that it has added 35 "Tall Man" drug names to its Medi-Span Electronic Drug File ... Office of Generic Drugs has identified 33 drug names prone to look-alike drug name medication ...

Article: JCAHO advises caution with certain drug names.
Hospice Management Advisor;  November 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...JCAHO advises caution with certain drug names Organizations to create watch list Home ... least 10 look-alike and sound-alike drug names to place on their watch list of medications ... medication use. Organizations must choose the drug names from a list of problematic drug ...

Article: Confusing drug names can lead to medication errors
AP Online;  November 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... including those caused by confusing drug names. Take Narcan, which treats morphine ... he invented a program that pinpoints drug names likely to be confused. Take nelfinavir ... confusing 15 pharmacists actually found the drug names the computer deemed very similar. The ...

Article: Researchers get $1.6 million NIH grant to address ...
Biotech Week;  June 25, 2003 ;     700+ words ... ... that will look at auditory perception of drug names and develop a software program that will ... tool that can be used to screen proposed drug names against databases of existing drug names. For several years, pharmacists, linguists ...

Article: Combating Medication Errors.(similar drug names and ...
Chain Drug Review;  August 27, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... dangers of sound-alike and look-alike drug names, tens of thousands of Americans continue ... Industry analysts say that similar drug names (either written or spoken) account ... handwriting, incomplete knowledge of drug names, newly available products, similar ...