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About Our Information
All information supplied on this site about individual medications is derived from the leading medication information database of Cerner Multum. This information is drafted and updated by multiple authors through Cerner Multum; please consult the Cerner Multum site directly for full details about the database and for full public license information. Every page of medication information contains a link directly to the suppliers of the original database, and a note of the last revision date of that entry. No changes have been made to the content of this medication information: you can be assured that this information reaches you directly as intended by the supplier.
Our Privacy Policy
As described on our Privacy Policy page, all contacts with this site are treated as confidential. The provider of this site is registered with the government of the United Kingdom as a Data Controller and operates this site in full accordance with the UK's Data Protection Act.
How to Contact Us
PLEASE NOTE: If you would like to get in touch about anything within our Wikipedia supplement (anything with 'medwiki' as the first part of the URL), please save yourself the time and do not contact us. Like hundreds of other sites on the web, we have dedicated one portion of our site to providing Wikipedia content as a service to our users, drawing our data directly from Wikipedia.org under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License. We do not edit, add, subtract, or otherwise censor or rewrite anything that is published by Wikipedia. We cannot do anything about what Wikipedia chooses to publish. If you would like to update, modify, delete, or otherwise alter Wikipedia information, please do that via Wikipedia, and your modifications will automatically be reflected at MedLibrary.org as soon as they have percolated through Wikipedia's servers and caching systems and been provided to the outside world.
Please note that Wikipedia does not operate just one computer. Percolation through their systems may take many days: just because you can see an update at your location does not mean that every other computer on the face of the planet will see that very same update at exactly the same time. (Can you tell that we have in the past received more than our fair share of confused queries about this?)
Again, if you would like to get in touch about anything within our Wikipedia supplement, please save yourself the time and do not contact us; contact Wikipedia.org instead, as it is Wikipedia which is responsible for content within the Wikipedia supplement.
Apart from queries regarding content provided by Wikipedia, we welcome any and all comments about the rest of our site to:
Please note that we will not enter into any discussions about specific medications or medical conditions. Even though we treat all contacts with this site as confidential, we would ask that you please not supply any sensitive personal information to us.
Who Backs Us and Why We Exist
This site is provided by Mulhauser Consulting, Ltd., a consulting firm, and the editorial process is overseen by Dr. Greg Mulhauser, its Managing Director. Dr Mulhauser is not a physician, and our medical information itself has not been edited or altered in any way from the original content supplied by Cerner Multum. (The 'Dr' indicates a PhD, not an MD.) The site receives no funding or other support except for Dr Mulhauser's time and advertisements placed by third parties -- for example, Google AdSense, as described below.
The site came into existence because of Dr Mulhauser's recognition, in the course of his work as a professional counselor and consultant, that clients frequently value clear and comprehensible information, geared for consumers, on medications which have been prescribed for them -- not just in the context of mental health, but more generally. This site exists to offer access to one of the medical community's leading open sources of that information in an easy-to-use form. (Cerner Multum's medication database is normally supplied in database form -- requiring a database front end to access it and meaning that, while freely downloadable, the database information remains unavailable to the majority of ordinary web users.)
Our Advertising Policy
At this time, we employ context-driven advertisements supplied by external agencies such as Google or Vibrant Media. These advertisements are supplied directly by, for example, Google, based upon proprietary indexing technology and algorithms which aim to match advertisements displayed with the content of a page. Because we do not know in advance what advertisements Google may select for display in connection with any specific content, we cannot be influenced by the interests of any particular advertiser. In addition, we cannot offer any comment (endorsement or otherwise) about any specific advertisement supplied via Google.
All advertising is clearly separated from medication information.
You can help support this site by visiting the sites of any sponsors which you find relevant.
Our Editorial Policy
As indicated above, all medical information is represented here exactly as received from the database supplier, without modification.
In addition, all medical news headlines and accompanying news summaries are provided without modification and exactly as reported from the publishers. Full attribution to the original news publisher is provided with every page of news headlines.
Our drug research abstracts are again provided without modification, and a link to the original literature abstract is included with every entry.
Our Wikipedia supplement is provided separately and is drawn directly from Wikipedia; it is neither hosted nor cached locally.