[e-med] Le département "médicaments" de l'OMS a une nouvelle présentation de son site web

["ReMeD" <remed@remed.org>]

[e-drug, le petit frère anglais de e-med signale la refonte du site web du 
Département de la Coopération Technique pour les médicaments essentiels et 
la médecine traditionnelle et de Département des politiques de médicaments 
et de la standardisation. Notez que l'adresse reste identique et pas de 
version française de la page d'acceuil même si on peut trouver des documents 
en français dans le site. CB]

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E-DRUG: Launch of a new Medicines web site
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The Department of Technical Cooperation for Essential Drugs and Traditional 
Medicine and the Department of Medicines Policy and Standards are pleased to 
announce the launch of a new Medicines web site
http://www.who.int/medicines/

The site was developed following a User Survey conducted recently and we 
have benefited from the active input of colleagues within WHO and from 
partner organizations.  It offers fresh content and includes a number of 
additional features and information resources.  The site is structured 
according to WHO's activities in the area of medicines, facilitating 
navigation and generally making it more user-friendly.  Key features 
include:

* Advanced Medicines and WHO site search based on GoogleTM
* An expanded medicines "News and Events" section; and
* Integrated web databases and on-line information retrieval.

The User Survey highlighted a need to make our information more easily 
accessible.  Therefore the "Publications" section on the site now contains a 
new Medicines Documentation system that has over 400 documents in English, 
French and Spanish.  It covers all key areas of work of the two 
Departments - including medicines policy, quality and safety, technical 
cooperation and traditional medicine -  and has the following features.

Fully searchable:  The content is in HTML format, which allows advanced 
searches across the entire collection, e.g. a search for the medicine name 
'abacavir' would produce not just a 'hit list' of document titles in which 
this term occurs, but would highlight all occurrences within the text.

Multilingual:  Documents are available in English, French and Spanish.  When 
other language versions of a document exist, these are indicated by language 
icons.  Clicking on the icon for a language takes the user directly to the 
same document in language specified.

Different file formats:  In addition to HTML files, PDF versions of 
documents have also been included and can be accessed by clicking the icon. 
Alternatively, the 'Export to PDF' feature can be used to create PDF files.

Content for courses or reports:  The "e-Course builder" feature enables the 
compilation of an html-based document containing a selection of chapters or 
sections from any number of documents in the system.  Once compiled, this 
document can be further edited or adapted as required.

Other important resources available on the site are:
* Antimicrobial Drug resistance  http://www.who.int/drugresistance/
* Essential Medicines Library http://mednet3.who.int/emEMLlib/
* Prequalification of Medicines http://mednet3.who.int/prequal/
* MedNet services for Global Indicators (GlobInd) and International 
Nonproprietary names (INN) http://mednet.who.int/
* WHO Drug Information  http://www.who.int/druginformation/


Kind regards

Jörg Hetzke (MIS) & Lalit Dwivedi (Publications)
Health Technology & Pharmaceuticals
World Health Organization
20, avenue Appia -- 1211 Genève 27
Switzerland
hetzkej@who.int
web: http://www.who.int/medicines
mednet: http://mednet.who.int