Center for Drug
Evaluation and Research The FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) promotes and
protects the health of Americans by assuring that all prescription and
over-the-counter drugs are safe and effective. CDER evaluates all new
drugs before they are sold, and serves as a consumer watchdog for the
more than 10,000 drugs on the market to be sure they continue to meet
the highest standards. The center routinely monitors TV, radio, and
print drug ads to ensure they are truthful and balanced. CDER also plays
a critical role in providing health professionals and consumers
information to use drugs appropriately and safely.
PubMed PubMed, a service of the National Library of Medicine, includes over 15
million citations for biomedical articles back to the 1950's. These
citations are from MEDLINE and additional life science journals. PubMed
includes links to many sites providing full text articles and other
related resources.