fully updated new two-year cycle 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 5,500 drug monographs 128,000 preparations 40,700 reference citations 10,900 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-fifth edition Chapters reorganised to better reflect the clinical use of drugs International Nonproprietary Names now in English, French, Latin, Russian and Spanish Increase in synonyms from Scandinavia, Baltic and Eastern European areas Increased coverage of 'street names' for drugs and substances liable to abuse Indication of drugs restricted or banned by sports authorities Molecular structural formulae included for selected drugs