Hello RK
Agreed
However, if its not very famous or if the brandname (eg here calpol or
fepanil etc) is being used to identify a generic drug by the general
public, capturing the list of names out there in the market would be
pretty difficult. We can probably include all those possible and known
brand names, but would have to probably expand on the scientific or
generic drug or chemical name (which is always given in the blister pack
or bottle or container)
Abhi
On 22-Nov-2011 10:16 PM, RadhaKrishna Arvapally wrote:
As a user of drug, I only know drugs by commercial name (say calpol).
But may not know if you tell about paracetamal.
If doctor refers calpol, I would come to wiki project and search for
calpol to understand what my doctor prescribed about.
-RK
On Tue, Nov 22, 2011 at 4:58 PM, Abhilash <abhilashu...@gmail.com
<mailto:abhilashu...@gmail.com>> wrote:
This is something worth exploring.
The en.wikipedia do give details, but only on the basis of the
scientific names. The brand specific names are not listed much,
unless they are very famous. Having said that trying to capture
the full list of drugs from manufacturers could be a very tedious
task (esp considering they may keep on getting them
updated/deleted/modified/renamed). More simple and trustworthy
would be to expand whatever is available and add more
generic/scientific compound name into wikipedia or a separate
pharmacology/pharmacopeia section under wikipedia.
Oral citations and citations from SME's would be the way to go.
Abhi
On 22-Nov-2011 9:03 AM, Vickram Crishna wrote:
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 (?????????) <viswapra...@gmail.com
<mailto:viswapra...@gmail.com>>
User: Netha Hussain +1
On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 23:42, Netha Hussain
<nethahuss...@gmail.com <mailto:nethahuss...@gmail.com>> 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.arvapa...@gmail.com
<mailto:radhakrishna.arvapa...@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
>
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