Biomedical database focusing on drugs and pharmacology, drug trials, medical devices, and clinical medicine. Commonly used to track drugs and devices and to support systematic reviews.
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It is often used along with PubMed when conducting comprehensive literature reviews on biomedical topics. However, Embase may be your first choice when searching for drug and pharmacology research or conference abstracts.
Access dates back to 1947.
Embase uses its own thesaurus, called Emtree, rather than the MeSH database used by PubMed/MEDLINE. For more information on Emtree, see the link below.