Guides: Grey Literature in the Health Sciences: Drugs and Devices

U.S. Food and Drug Administration

These resources, FDA and otherwise, can provide regulatory, safety and cost information on prescirption and OTC drugs and medical devices.

Drugs@FDA
FDA/Center for Drug Evaluation and Research
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The majority of patient information, labels, approval letters, reviews, and other information are available for drug products approved since 1998.
MedWatch
FDA Safety Information and Adverse Event Reporting Program
Drug Databases
List of available FDA drug databases. Click on each for more information.
Medical Device Databases
List of available FDA medical device databases.
Advisory Committees
Committee and meeting materials
National Center for Health Statistics
Contains Data Briefs and other publications as well as the most up-to-date national statistics on health issues, with links to other sites.

Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technology in Health
Information effectiveness and efficiency of medical devices and drugs
European Medicines Agency
Responsible for the scientific evaluation of medicines developed by pharmaceutical companies for use in the European Union.
Drug Assessments
Therapeutics Initiative, Canada
DERP
Drug Effectiveness Review Project produces systematic literature reviews of drug classes. Documents include Key Questions, Draft Documents and Evidence Tables, and Final Documents and Evidence Tables.