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PDR...Through the years, from 1946 to 2016
mobilePDR is launched for Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs).
PDR Drug Interactions, Side Effects, and Indications diskettes are distributed.
J. Morgan Jones puts out the first edition of the
The amended FD&C Act requires drug makers to prove to the FDA that their products are safe and effective prior to marketing, which increases the length of monographs.
Physicians' Desk Reference to Pharmaceutical
Specialties and Biologicals.
PDR's landmark 70th Edition will require 19 tractor-trailer loads of 267 rolls of paper, at an average roll weight of 3,500 pounds.
The amount of linear feet of paper required to produce the 70th Edition is equivalent to 876 climbs to the top of Mount Everest!
Pocket PDR, the first handheld device containing drug information, is introduced.
The PDR breaks a record! The 2004 edition is 3,500 pages long and is distributed to 480,000 practicing physicians in the US.
2016 and beyond!
1947
PDR starts including a photographic section of selected drugs to enable visual drug identification.
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The PDR's paper stock is produced in Madawaska, ME, the northern-most point in the continental US.
The shortest route to transport
the paper from Madawaska's
mill to PDR's printing plant in
Chicago is through Canada.
PDR launches a completely re-envisioned mobilePDR, the official drug information and comparison app, at no cost for all US healthcare professionals.
This is the first version of mobilePDR that is
designed and produced by PDR's Technology
Team.
The PDR database in a flat file is first offered to Merck, which allows PDR data to be used in an offsite setting. Today, most major pharma companies and institutions use enterprise versions of the PDR on their intranets.
PDR On-Line service is introduced.
Information on diagnostic products in included.
The book introduces its first biannual supplements.
eDrug Update email newsletters and 60-Day Updates in both emailed and printed formats are published as a free service to keep the book current between editions.
The PDR goes GREEN! 40% of the paper is made from recycled content. The virgin pulp is harvested locally within 50 miles of the paper mill to reduce our carbon footprint.
The PDR eBook is issued. This is the first fully digital edition.
PDR introduces PDR+ for Patients consumer-friendly drug guides, made available via EMRs and on PDR.net.
The PDR Pharmacy Discount Card program
is launched to help patients afford their
prescription medications. A mobile Card for
smartphones will be added in 2015.
PDR launches Gettingwell.com, the first PDR consumer-oriented website. This site will be renamed PDRhealth.com and relaunched in 2002.
The book introduces a dedicated dietary supplement section.
The PDR Library on CD-ROM is issued.
Medecinteractive.com, later renamed PDR.net, is launched. It allows physicians to look up drugs and interactions, and access resources such as Medline
and Stedman's Medical Dictionary.
PDR launches within EMR e-prescribing systems.