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 FDA has proposed placing strong warning labels on many over-the-counter painkillers, cautioning patients about the risks of possible liver failure from taking them too often. More than 200 million ...

In an essay published in this week’s issue of the New England Journal of Medicine, a trio of medical researchers team up to propose a novel way to trim some of the nation’s ballooning health care ...

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 ...

Medicine and supplement labels can be tricky, but knowing how to read them can protect your health and prevent dangerous mistakes. From understanding active vs. inactive ingredients to spotting dosage ...

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 ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Senators introduced legislation on Thursday that would require prescription drug labels to identify where the medication was made, adding momentum to a ...

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 ...

Abilify is a brand-name oral tablet that doctors prescribe for certain mental health disorders, such as schizophrenia. There may be other conditions, such as anxiety, where doctors may use Abilify off ...