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Herb and Drug Interactions, Mayo Clinic, http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/herbal-supplements/SA00039

Your Medicine: Play It Safe, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, http://www.ahrq.gov/consumer/safemeds/safemeds.htm

Drug Interaction Checkers

About.com List, http://www.thyroid.about.com/library/drugs/blinteractionchecker.htm

Caremark, http://www.caremark.com; click on Drug Interactions under the heading Health Resources

Discovery Health, http://www.health.discovery.com; search for "drug interaction"

Drugs.com, http://www.drugs.com/drug_interactions.html

Drugstore.com, http://www.drugstore.com/pharmacy/drugchecker

Eckerd, http://www.eckerd.com; click on Pharmacy, then select Drug Interaction Tool

Express Scripts, http://www.drugdigest.org; click on Check Interactions

Medscape, http://www.medscape.com; search for "drug interaction checker"

University of Maryland Medical Center, http://www.umm.edu/adam/drug_checker.htm

Walgreens, http://www.walgreens.com/help/hy_cdi.jsp (Requires free site registration.)

Wal-Mart, http://www.walmart.com/pharmacy; click on Learn About Drug Interactions under heading Health & Drug Information

-- January W. Payne

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