Nearly Half of Patients Misunderstand One or More Dosage Instructions Pharmacies Across the Country Urged to Adopt "Patient-Centered" Labels ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 9, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- ...

Do you ever look at the labels of the prescription medications you take? Or do you simply rely on your physician to read them to understand the medications’ appropriate uses and side effects? Either ...

How confident are you that you take prescription drugs correctly? The instructions on the bottle's label may not seem to be hard to follow, but more than 500,000 Americans misinterpret them every year ...

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 ...

Adhesive PWLs were originally developed to highlight important instructions for the safe use of a medication that were contained within the longer package insert and to be visible every time the ...

Microsoft Word's label templates give you complete control over how the labels look when printed, so that you don't have to worry about choosing certain settings to ensure the labels actually print ...

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 ...

Trying to decipher dose instructions written in small print on prescription medications or over-the-counter drug labels can be a daunting task for people with vision impairment or eyesight dimmed by ...

You'll find about 15 versions of Advil (such as "PM") and 20 kinds of Tylenol (including those made for kids). And that's not counting the various types of generic ...

The agency worried the rule could create “unintended consequences” by confusing patients and doctors. Do you ever look at the labels of the prescription medications you take? Or do you simply rely on ...