Healthy Santa Cruz County - Prescriptions, Drugs & Medications

Local Links

• Local Help & Information: Paying for Medical Expenses
  The library's Community Information Database can help you find organizations in Santa Cruz County which offer further information or help in paying for prescriptions or medical services. Use this link to search the CID.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, health insurance, local information, medications, prescriptions

Library Resources

• Find Books: Prescription Medications
  Santa Cruz Public Libraries have many informative and up-to-date books about prescription medications. Click here to search the library catalog.
  Browse related subjects: books, books / videos, drugs, medications, prescriptions

Recommended Websites

• Consumer Reports Best Buy Drugs
  Special features: More than 15 easy-to-read reports available analyzing the effectiveness, safety and cost of commonly used prescription drugs; review of Medicare Drug Benefit; tips for safe use of medications; Spanish and text enlargement available. From: Consumers Union.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drug Digest
  Special features: Reviews of more than 1500 medications, supplements and herbs; interaction checker; side-effect comparison; interactive tools; e-bulletin updates; RxSpeak, an innovative online forum for voicing opinions on prescription-related topics. From: Express Scripts.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drug InfoNet
  Special features: Drug information section offers official package inserts and patient package inserts - search by brand name, generic name, manufacturer or therapeutic class. From: DrugInfoNet.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• Drugs, Supplements and Herbs - MedlinePlus
  Special features: Search by generic or brand name; link to FDA drug warnings, recalls and product safety information. From: NLM / NIH. See also: Over-the-Counter Medications - MedlinePlus
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• Drugs.com
  Special features: Fast, easy searching of over 24,000 approved medications by medication name or medical condition; pill identifier; medical encyclopedia; drug interaction checker. From: PDR, Cerner-Multum and Thomson Micromedex, three independent medical-information suppliers.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, pills, prescriptions, recommended website
• Needy Meds
  Special features: Information for people needing help with cost of medicine or other healthcare expenses; links to patient assistance programs, government programs, discount drug cards and more. From: NeedyMeds, Inc.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, recommended website
• RxList
  Special features: Advanced Search option is searchable by keyword or drug name, and will provide interactions, pill ID, patient information sheet, etc. from single search; Top 300 drugs of previous year; discussion boards; limited coverage of herbs and supplements. From: RxList, Inc.
  Browse related subjects: drugs, medications, prescriptions, research database

Databases

• Health and Wellness Resource Center
  Provides health-related information from more than 700 health/medical journals and hundreds of pamphlets (many with full text), 2,200 magazines, and various reference sources.