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| Summary |
The aim of the INN System has been to provide
health professionals with a unique and universally
available designated name to identify each
pharmaceutical substance. The existence of an
international nomenclature for pharmaceutical
substances, in the form of INN, is important for the
clear identification, safe prescription and dispensing
of medicines to patients, and for communication and
exchange of information among health professionals
and scientists worldwide.
This eleventh Cumulative List CD-ROM is intended
as a reference source for national drug regulatory
authorities, the pharmaceutical industry and health
professionals. It supersedes the tenth list published
in 2001. It contains over 7633 INNs for individual
pharmaceutical substances, including about 455
new names proposed since the previous Cumulative
List was prepared. It is produced in a multilingual
format: English and French introductory texts,
together with a listing of INNs in Latin, English,
French, Russian, Spanish, Arabic and Chinese.
The CD-ROM also
includes references to other generic names, such as
national nonproprietary names and names used by
the International Organization of Standardization,
pharmacopoeial monographs, the List of Narcotic
Drugs under International Control, and other
sources. Indexes of molecular formulae and of
Chemical Abstracts Services registry numbers are
also included.
Internet access to International Nonproprietary
Names (INN) for Pharmaceutical Substances
Regular updates of published proposed and
recommended INNs Information on Proposed and
Recommended International Nonproprietary Names
(INNs) can also be consulted on the following
website:
http://www.who.int/medicines/services/inn/en/index.html
"... highly successful in achieving harmonisation
of drug names ..."
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