<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=windows-1252"><base href="x-msg://4504/"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><br><div><div>On 8 Jan 2013, at 15:45, "WHITELOCK, Pete" <<a href="mailto:pete.whitelock@oup.com">pete.whitelock@oup.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div lang="EN-GB" link="blue" vlink="purple" style="font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: -webkit-auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; "><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; "><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">I’m interested in the problem of spotting that a particular string that’s not in one’s dictionary is in fact the name of a drug. ...<o:p></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; "><o:p> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0cm 0cm 0.0001pt; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; ">In addition, does anyone know where to get a list of drug names to use as the starting point.</div></div></div></blockquote><br></div><div>British Pharmacopoeia might boot strap your list. </div><div><br></div><blockquote style="margin: 0 0 0 40px; border: none; padding: 0px;"><div>"The British Pharmacopoeia (BP) is the official collection of standards
for UK medicinal products and pharmaceutical substances. Produced by the
British Pharmacopoeia Commission Secretariat of the Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, the BP makes an important
contribution to public health by setting publicly available standards
for the quality of medicines."</div></blockquote><div><br></div>It's a subscription service from <a href="http://www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk/">http://www.pharmacopoeia.co.uk/</a> (a part of TSO).<div><br></div><div>You might also want to look at British National Formulary at <a href="http://www.bnf.org/bnf/index.htm">http://www.bnf.org/bnf/index.htm</a> (a publication of the BMJ); I believe this is the book your GP will have on their desk and consult when prescribing you medication.</div><div><br></div><div>Have you also considered generics formulations? A hot topic here in the UK at the moment with the NHS telling GPs to prescribe the cheaper generic forms rather than proprietary branded and patented originals. <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prescribe-cheaper-drugs-gps-told-8433635.html">http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/prescribe-cheaper-drugs-gps-told-8433635.html</a></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>
Regards, Trevor.<div><br></div><div><>< Re: deemed!</div>
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