[e-drug] Patented drugs on WHO/EML?

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E-DRUG: Patented drugs on WHO/EML?
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Dear Friends,

Can any one help me giving the details of drugs still under patent in the EDL(WHO)?. When the period of patent will be over?

Thanks in advance,

Dr. Guru Prasad Mohanta,
Professor, Department of Pharmacy,
Annamalai University, Annamalai Nagar - 608 002,
Tamil Nadu, INDIA.
E. mail: gpmohanta@yahoo.com
Tel: 04144-239738(O), 238431(R),
Cell : 9443666208

[Patents are national, and the WHO EML is a global advice. So the answer depends on the country where you are. Finding dates of patent expiry is also difficult. WB]

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E-DRUG: Patented drugs on WHO/EML? (2)
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Dear colleague,

Dates of patents and countries in which the patents were filed can be found in the Merck Index (published by Merck & Co Inc., available in bookshops, as far as I know NOT on the Internet. Most medical and pharmaceutical laboratories (and all of the larger industries) have it.

Good luck

Dr Leo Offerhaus
Netherlands
offerhausl@euronet.nl

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E-DRUG: Drug information Centres in Nigeria?
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Dear e-druggers,

Please may I be advised about the various drug
information centres in Africa (especially Nigeria) or
any libraries with good resources.

Thanks,

Funmi Oduniyi (MRPharmS)

[Besides E-drug there is also INDICES, a network for Drug Information Centres. See http://www.essentialdrugs.org/indices/
INDICES is not very active, unfortunately.
Maybe all Drug Information people should look at the archives and join the list to create a network of DICs?
Wilbert (moderator)

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E-DRUG: Drug information Centres in Nigeria? (2)
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Please may I be advised about the various drug
information centres in Africa (especially Nigeria)
or any libraries with good resources.

Below is a list of Drug Information Centres in Africa
which I compiled last year - unfortunately none in
Nigeria. If anyone else knows of any which are missing
or any information which has changed please let me
know.

FOr those with internet access, Graeme Vernon
maintains an international list of DICs on the Society
of Hospital Pharmacists of Australia website:

Regards

Douglas Ball
Kuwait University
dball@hsc.edu.kw
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*National services*

Drug & Toxicology Information Service (DATIS)
Chiedza Maponga; Dexter Tagwireyi
The Director, DaTIS, PO Box A178 Avondale, Harare,
Zimbabwe. Tel/fax: +263 790233;
dtagwireyi@healthnet.zw

University of Cape Town: Medicines Information Centre
Annoesjka Swart
Department of Pharmacology, University of Cape Town,
Medical
School, Observatory 7925, South Africa
Fax:+ 27 21 448 0503
Ph: + 27 21 406 6781
E-mail: micguest@uctgsh1.uct.ac.za

Tanzania Drug & Toxicology Information Service
(TaDATIS) Mwemezi Ngemera; Winna Shango TADATIS,
Pharmacy Board, PO Box 77150, Dar es-salaam, Tanzania;
Tel: 255 741 237245; fax 2450793; email
tadatis@simbanet.net

National Drug Information Unit, c/o Minisitry of
Health, PO Box 212 Asmara, Eritrea; phone 291 1 12
2429 / 0297; fax 291 1 12 2899; yohannes@eol.com.er

National Drug Information Resource Centre
Philip Anum
NDIRC Office, P.O. Box 10344, Accra-North, Ghana; Tel:
233-21-678557/678559;
Fax: 233-21-678557; pw_anum@yahoo.com,
www.ghanadruginfo.org, info@ghanadruginfo.org

Drug information centre (due to start 2004)
Winnie Tumwikirize
winnietumwi@yahoo.com
Department of Pharmacology, Makerere University,
Kampala, Uganda

Amayeza Drug Information Centre
Lee Baker
Tel: (011) 678-2332; 476-7697;
http://www.pharmnet.co.za/druginfo/amayeza_info.htm;
amayeza@pharmail.co.za

*Specialist services*

Gertrude's Garden Children's Hospital
Mary Ojoo
Pharmacy, Gertrude's Garden Children's Hospital, PO
Box 42325-00100, Nairobi, KENYA; Telephone: + 254 2
3763 477; Facsimile: + 254 2 3763 281;
mojoo@gerties.org

Natal Bioproducts Institute
Carolyn Rochat
NBI Information Centre, Private Bag X9043, Pinetown
3600, South Africa; Tel: (031) 719 6789; Fax: (031)
708 5614; E-mail: natalnbi@nbi-kzn.org.za

*Regional/local services*

Maun General Hospital Drug Information
Maun General Hospital, Maun, Pharmacy Department, Maun
General Hospital, P.O. Box 12, Maun, Botswana; Tel: +
267 686 5005; Fax: + 267 686 0819; E-mail:
monkiyke@yahoo.com

University of Stellenbosch Dept. of Pharmacology
Poisons and Drug Information Centre Prof. P. van der
Bijl
Department of Pharmacology, University of Stellenbosch
Medical School, P.O. Box 19063, Tygerberg 7505, Cape
Town; Tel: 021-9389331; Fax: 021-9389122;
pvdb@sun.ac.za

University of the Orange Free State, Department of
Pharmacology, Poisons and Drug Information Centre
Prof. A Walubo Department of Pharmacology (G6),
University of the Free State, P.O. Box 339,
BLOEMFONTEIN 9300, South Africa;
Tel: +27-(0)51-4013134/3090; waluboa@med.uovs.ac.za