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Drug Structure Images Now Available on IMSworld R&D Focus Drug Updates (IPUR)

From June 2002, IPUR on DataStar now includes documents with drug structure images.

For monitoring activity in the pharmaceutical research and development pipeline, IMSworld R&D Focus Drug Updates is an invaluable and trusted source of information. Use the file to answer such questions as:

• Which anti-Alzheimer's drugs are in phase III development in Japan?
  
  
• In which areas of R&D have your closest competitors been concentrating?
  
  
• Which antibiotics are approaching launch worldwide?

Out of a total of more than 16,000 documents in the file some 5,600 have images attached. This number will increase as the database is updated and entries are added or amended. Combined with the variations of naming available for drug compounds in IPUR - generic names, company names, trade names and chemical names - the presence of chemical structure images gives you a clearer presentation of the compound in development.

Images are only accessible via the DataStarWeb interface. To retrieve those documents with images, click the corresponding checkbox or enter the search statement: "IMAGE=YES." Choose to view the full document to see the images, or combine the image field with you own preferred selection of other fields. A small premium (US$1-50) is added for viewing those documents that contain images.

IPUR joins the growing number of files on DataStar that have images. These include Prous Science's Drugs of the Future (PRFU), Drug Data Report (PRDR) and Daily Essentials (PRES) files, Pharmaprojects (PHAR) from PJB, and the Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews (CDSR).

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