Medicines and You: A Guide for Older Adults Also available in: Spanish The more you know about your medicines and the more you talk with your health care professionals, the easier it is to avoid problems with medicines.
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Medicines: Use Them Safely Also available in: Spanish Many older people owe their health in part to new and improved medicines and vaccines. But using medicines may be riskier for older adults, especially when several medicines are used at one time. Taki... Details > National Institute on Aging, National Institutes of Health |
MedWatch, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medical Products Reporting Program MedWatch, the FDA Medical Products Reporting Program, is an initiative designed to both educate all health professionals about the critical importance of being aware of, monitoring for, and reporting ... Details > Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
National Institute on Drug Abuse Prescription Drugs Initiative NIDA's public health initiative is intended to raise awareness about recent trends in the misuse and abuse of prescription drugs in the United States. The initiative seeks to inform the public, physic... Details > National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health |
Pediatric Drug Development/Best Pharmaceuticals for Children Act (BPCA) Recent pediatric drug studies have resulted in the addition of pediatric information to the labeling for more than 40 drugs. The drug labeling provides guidance for doctors and other health-care provi... Details > Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
Prescription Drug Information This guide to more than 9,000 prescription and over-the-counter medications provided by the United States Pharmacopeia (USP) in the USP DI® Advice for the Patient® is hosted by the National Library of... Details > National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health |
Prescription Drugs User Fees The Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) of 1992 provided FDA with increasing levels of resources for the review of human drug applications. Fees that FDA collected from drug and biologics firms fro... Details > U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
Questions and Answers for Withdrawal of Duract Answers to consumers' questions concerning the withdrawal of Duract from the market and FDA's recommendation that patients stop taking the drug after reports of a rare but serious liver problem as mor... Details > Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration |
Questions To Ask Your Doctor If You Have High Blood Pressure Questions you should ask if your doctor prescribes a drug to treat your blood pressure.... Details > National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, National Institutes of Health |
RxAssist: Accessing Pharmaceutical Patient Assistance Programs Rx Assist, a program of Volunteers in Health Care, is a website which provides physicians and other health care providers with information to access pharmaceutical company patient assistance programs.... Details > Volunteers in Health Care |