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Standardizing Medication Labels: Confusing Patients Less: A Workshop

Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over a million adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits as well as ...
Medscape

Drug Labels Often Neglect to Inform About Obesity Dosing

Obesity can alter the action of many types of medications in ways affecting safety and/or efficacy, but this often isn’t mentioned in the labels. Experts in obesity and pharmacology are trying to ...
Los Angeles Times

Drug labels, ads at center of battle

For years, American consumers have been bombarded with overhyped advertising for prescription drugs. On average, they spend more time watching drug ads on TV -- 16 hours a year -- than talking with ...
Healio

Drug labels, QT prolongation and ECG recommendations

CredibleMeds, a valuable resource for prescribing physicians, now includes information from FDA drug labels to inform prescribers of any ECG monitoring recommendations, warnings for use in congenital ...
Healthline

Common Pharmacy Abbreviations

Many prescription abbreviations originate from Latin terms. But, pharmacists translate these into plain language on medication labels so you can understand the instructions clearly. The use of ...
Healio

Q&A: How to ‘improve’ an FDA label with evidence, advocacy

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Citizens can petition the FDA to update an approved drug’s label, including removing a boxed warning. Successful ...
Medical Xpress

Research: FDA drug labels not proof of patent violation

Federal law requires every prescription drug to include a document describing dosing guidelines, contraindications, results from clinical trials and safety considerations. But a spate of recent court ...