Pocket Pharmacist

Pocket Pharmacist

Highlight a drug name on any website to get a description including the drug's other names, drug class, and what it may treat.

What is Pocket Pharmacist?
Pocket Pharmacist is a Chrome extension that allows you to quickly access information about drugs. Simply highlight a drug name on a webpage and press a shortcut to get details such as other names, drug class, and its potential uses. It uses the National Institute of Health's NCBI API for accurate information and provides quick responses. This extension is useful for web surfers and pharmacology students.
Merlin
Stats
Users: 145 ▲ 8
Version: 1.1 (Last updated: 2021-02-16)
Creation date: 2021-02-05
Risk impact: Low risk impact
Risk likelihood: Very low risk likelihood
Manifest version: 2
Permissions:
  • activeTab
  • https://rxnav.nlm.nih.gov/*
  • storage
  • declarativeContent
Size: 556.03K
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Summary

Highlight an unknown drug name with your cursor, and press the shortcut buttons (Windows: ALT+P, Mac: CMD-SHIFT-P) to get the drug's other name, the drug class, and what it may treat. It uses National Institute of Health's NCBI API, so it includes over 100s of drugs with quick response time. Useful for web surfers to pharmacologist students. Click extension to get recently searched drugs.

Safety
Risk impact

Pocket Pharmacist is relatively safe to use as it requires very minimum permissions.

Risk likelihood

Pocket Pharmacist has earned a good reputation and can be trusted.

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