World's Leading Pharmacological Reference Debuts on McGraw-Hill's Access Medicine

McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, a unit of McGraw-Hill Professional, announces the online release of Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, the world's foremost pharmacology reference. A powerful addition to AccessMedicine, Goodman and Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics is a critical resource in the daily work of students, physicians and researchers worldwide.

Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics was first published in 1941. Today's online version continues the tradition as a resource for understanding the effective and rational prescription of drugs. For the first time, pharmacists, researchers, clinicians, and students will have immediate answers to the questions of how and why drugs work. Goodman & Gilman's, a key component of McGraw-Hill's comprehensive Access Medicine service, allows professionals to quickly and effectively match a patient diagnosis with the appropriate drug therapy.

"Launching Goodman & Gilman's as part of the AccessMedicine.com library is a landmark event for McGraw-Hill and the medical community," said Jack Farrell, Vice President and Publisher, McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing. "By integrating the most respected pharmacology content with leading medical references, including Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, we are providing the medical community with an exceptional, one-stop source for authoritative and current medical information.

Completely integrated into the AccessMedicine.com clinical library, the full text of the most recent edition of Goodman & Gilman's The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics provides crucial information regarding chemical properties, dosage information, drug interactions and toxic effects.

In addition, Goodman & Gilman's features fully integrated links to Gold Standard's Clinical Pharmacology drug database for real-time information on indications and contraindications, dosage, interactions, adverse reactions, costs, patient education in English and Spanish, and color photographs of pills.

McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.com is an innovative online service that provides researchers, physicians, medical students and all health professionals with some 30 digital medical titles, daily updated content, hundreds of illustrations, a self-assessment feature, a comprehensive search platform and the ability to download content to a mobile device.

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