It may seem simple: 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 relief ...

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 ...

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 ...

The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday released draft guidance describing the process for drug companies when they have to update a generic’s label after the reference product (for which ...

A national survey of 600 U.S. adults examined how Americans read and follow prescription and over-the-counter drug labels. The results reveal widespread gaps in understanding that may contribute to ...