Martindale provides reliable, unbiased and evaluated information on drugs and medicines used throughout the world - no other source has the breadth and depth of coverage. * Encyclopaedic facts about drugs and medicines o 5,820 drug monographs o 146,000 preparations o 47,750 reference citations o 13,000 manufacturers * Synopses of disease treatments * Enables identification of medicines, the local equivalent and the manufacturer * Includes herbals, diagnostic agents, radiopharmaceuticals, pharmaceutical excipients, toxins, and poisons as well as drugs and medicines * Based on published information and extensively referenced New for the thirty-sixth edition * Over 260 new monographs * Chapters reorganised to better reflect the clinical use of drugs: o The chapters on Prostaglandins and Hypothalamics have been reorganised and their contents added to new chapters on: Obstetric Drugs; Growth Hormone and its Modulators o The chapter on Sex Hormones has been enlarged and renamed Sex Hormones and their Modulators * Increase in synonyms from Russia, and new synonyms from Poland and Turkey * Veterinary ATC codes added * Coverage of proprietary preparations expanded to 40 countries, now including Indonesia, the Philippines, Poland and Turkey