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Drugs.com Enters Exclusive Agreement to Publish Premium 3D “Mechanism of Action” Content

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Drugs.com has entered into an exclusive content partnership with Understand.com to provide pharmaceutical companies a new, premium educational 3D animation solution on the Drugs.com web site. This PhRMA compliant educational initiative enhances current drug-specific product information on Drugs.com with interactive 3D animations explaining how a drug’s mechanism of action works and how the product specifically […]

Drugs.com and WebMD enter into premium display advertising agreement

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Effective January 1, 2010, Drugs.com has entered into an exclusive advertising agreement with WebMD. All premium, consumer focused display or “banner” advertising will be provided exclusively by WebMD. “Drugs.com is one of very few sites that have developed a loyal base of users that are of high interest and high value to biopharmaceutical and consumer […]

New, simpler interface update now live

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Regular users will notice that we have now completed rolling out a significant change to the design and layout of Drugs.com. There are many improvements in this new release, including; a less complex two column layout making the content easier to scan and read; increasing the default font size and adding related links in easier […]

Drugs.com Answers – got a question about your meds?

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The new Drugs.com Answers and Support Group system is intended as a way of providing help for people who have questions about drugs or medical conditions. Members of Drugs.com can ask or answer questions and join support groups. We’d also like to take this opportunity to invite members to share their own knowledge with other […]

Drugs.com Refutes Erroneous Claims

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This week in Washington, D.C. saw the public hearings on promotion of FDA-regulated medical products using the internet and social media tools. Drugs.com got a mention and a reference or two by one of the speakers. People heard, wrote, tweeted, blogged, reported and within minutes the quote had gone viral on the internet. The problem […]

New and comprehensive drug, disease, food and lifestyle interactions now available

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A significant upgrade to our drug interactions information has been completed. Now you can view information on drug interactions, food/ lifestyle (eg: alcohol, caffeine) interactions and disease interactions. This represents a significant amount of newly added information for many thousands of medications. Regular visitors will also notice a complete change in the layout of drug […]

A Side Effect of Michael Jackson’s Tragic Death – Consumer Health Education

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Drugs.com reported a massive 20,900% increase (yes, you read that correctly – twenty thousand, nine hundred percent) in interest for information on the prescription medication Demerol – allegedly prescribed for the legendary entertainer Michael Jackson. More than 135,000 page views were logged on the Drugs.com web site by people researching Demerol this past Friday – […]