You're feeling miserable from being under the weather with the flu , so you go to your nearest drugstore to pick up over-the-counter cold and flu medicine to give you some ...

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 ...

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 ...

A label begins with highlights, a succinct, half-page summary of the information that health care practitioners most commonly refer to and view as most important (Figure 2). [4] This section provides ...

Regulatory Focus' ongoing series of Regulatory Explainers take complicated regulatory topics and make them simple enough for anyone to understand. In our latest Regulatory Explainer, we ...