Drugs, Medications & Medical Devices

ABLEDATA
This site offers a searchable database featuring more than 20,000 assistive devices / products currently on the market; each listing includes product description, price, and name / contact information for sellers.

Best Buy Drugs
Consumer Reports offers free unbiased analysis covering hundreds of prescription drugs. Search by disease or drug name. Also money saving tips, drug reports/alerts, and recommended best buys.

FDA Drug Information
This FDA website provides extensive information on drug safety and availability, facts and myths about generic drugs, counterfeit drugs, medication guides, importing drugs, and the FDA Safety Newsletter. Some information is available as podcasts and video broadcasts. Here are some topics pertaining specifically to seniors:

FDA Medicines and You: A Guide for Older Adults
Advice about taking medicines safely from the US Food & Drug Administration. Topics include: dangers of drug and food interactions, cutting medicine costs, and ways in which drugs may affect people in different ways as they age; also provides specific questions to ask your doctor when new medications are prescribed.

FDA Medical Devices
This comprehensive website provides information on a wide variety of products, device recalls, and medical procedures.

Drug Information Portal
The NLM Drug Information Portal gives users quick access to drug information from the U.S. National Library of Medicine and other key U.S. Government agencies.  Search more than 17,000 drugs by trade name or generic name; coverage includes: what the medication is prescribed for; dosage; side effects; special instructions, warnings or precautions; clinical trials.

NeedyMeds.com
Information about pharmaceutical manufacturers which have special programs to assist people who can't afford to buy the drugs they need; also covers patient assistance programs, state and federal government programs, and more.

RxList: Internet Drug Index
Offers detailed and current pharmaceutical information about hundreds of brand and generic drugs. Search by brand name, generic name, or category. Site also features symptom-checker, pill identifier, and other health tools, e-newsletter, message boards and alternative medicine coverage (topics here include: Western Herbs, Chinese Herbal Remedies, and Homeopathy). From: WebMD.