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This page is an interactive tool that allows you to narrow your search for a Medicare prescription drug plan based on your personal preferences such as cost, coverage, and convenience. ... Details >
You are encouraged to print this page and take it with you to your next doctor's appointment, so you can have all the pertinent questions you should ask about your medication right at your fingertips.... Details >
Prescription drug advertisements can provide useful information for consumers to work with their health care providers to make wise decisions about treatment. Learn about correct and incorrect version... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
BenefitsCheckUpRx helps you learn about and sign up for valuable public and private programs that can save you money on your health care and prescription drugs. This includes the Extra Help through th... Details >
Useful, easy-to-understand information about buying prescription drugs and medical products online. This Web site includes information on how to protect yourself from dangerous online practices involv... Details >
The growth of the Internet has made it possible to compare prices and buy products without ever leaving home. But when it comes to buying medicine online, it is important to be very careful. Some webs... Details >
The Internet is rapidly changing the way we live, including how we work and shop. The growth of the Internet in recent years has enabled many consumers to purchase medicines online. There are online p... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
This page provides access to educational materials from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services on the new Medicare prescription drug coverage. Materials are available in English, Chinese, Kore... Details >
You can use this listing to search for clinical trials, find out information about physicians and medical centers performing clinical research, and learn about drug therapies newly approved by the Foo... Details >
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The drug information sheets posted on this site provides basic information about medications recently approved by the FDA.... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
This page links users to CDER material and resources available online. Includes a drug code directory, information on drug labeling changes, adverse drug reaction reporting data, and information on ... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Some drugs have adverse affects if taken together. Learn more about protecting yourself and your family from drug and common food interactions.... Details >
Federal Citizen Information Center, U.S. General Services Administration
To guard against potential problems with medicines, you must be knowledgeable about what you take and how it makes you feel. Knowledge, common sense, and a few simple tools can help you safely manage ... Details >
An online resource where users can learn more about drugs, dietary supplements and drug interactions; find out how the drug they are taking compares with others like it; and get information about the ... Details >
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This is a catalog of FDA-approved drug products that includes approved and tentatively approved prescription, over-the-counter, and discontinued drugs as well as drug approval letters, labels, and rev... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced approval of Atripla Tablets, a fixed-dose combination of three widely-used antiretroviral drugs, in a single tablet taken once a day, alone or in combi... Details >
The official magazine of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), each issue contains in-depth feature articles written for the general public on getting healthy and staying healthy. The magazine ... Details >
This article presents basic advice for safe and effective use of medicine. Special precautions related to children, tampering, and correct dosage are described. ... Details >
Also available in: Spanish
This page is an interactive tool which allows individuals to find state plans that match their required drug list.... Details >
Answers to the frequently asked questions about medication errors with links to other sites and more detailed information that may be of help.... Details >
This page provides answers to frequently asked questions about Medicare prescription drug coverage. The questions cover Medicare premiums and coinsurance rates for 2006, how to join a Medicare Prescri... Details >
This site provides information about Medicare Part D, ways to get health care if you are uninsured, and what the federal poverty level means.... Details >
A new Medicare Prescription Drug Program offers help with prescription drug costs. The new program gives a choice of prescription plans that offer various types of coverage. This page provides answers... Details >
The information on this web site is intended to help hospitals and other health care systems to improve patient safety by reducing medication errors. Users can find useful resources – references and ... Details >
The patient education information contained in this booklet applies generally to both over-the-counter and prescription medicines.... Details >
This page lists Medicare Prescription Drug Plans and Medicare Advantage Plans and other Health Plans with prescription drug coverage by state, including information on cost, coverage, and convenience.... Details >
Some quick tips to help you take your medications so they work properly.... Details >
Federal Citizen Information Center, U.S. General Services Administration
This page provides a collection of materials produced by Families USA covering different aspects of the new Medicare prescription drug, including out-of-pocket costs under the new law, discount card, ... Details >
Private companies will offer Medicare prescription drug coverage starting January 1, 2006. This page links to Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Cost Estimator, a quick tool that gives individuals a sens... Details >
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services launched Medicare Prescription Drug Plan Finder on www.medicare.gov on October 17, 2005. The tool is designed to help people with Medicare find a Medicar... Details >
This web site presents health care professionals who encounter actual or potential medication errors with several options by which to report these incidents confidentially to U.S. Pharmacopeia (USP). ... Details >
This booklet is designed to help people understand how and why drugs can be used as part of the treatment of mental health problems. It also discusses several psychotherapeutic medicines in the four ... Details >
National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health
Kids play this word game and see how much you know about medicines that may be in your own medicine cabinets. Print the form on this page and find the hidden words. Click on the words under the puzzle... Details >
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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. ... Details >
Center for Drug Evaluation and Research, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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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 >
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
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
The NCI Drug Dictionary contains technical definitions and synonyms for more than 500 agents that are being used in the treatment of patients with cancer or cancer-related conditions.... Details >
Time is running out to sign up for the Medicare Prescription Drug Coverage. All people with Medicare are eligible for this benefit regardless of income or how many prescriptions they currently take. T... Details >
Everyone with Medicare, regardless of income, health status, or prescription drug usage, will have access to prescription drug coverage beginning on January 1, 2006. This page provides access to infor... Details >
This page provides basic information about Medicare prescription drug coverage, including what it is, who can get it, when to get it, how to get it, and why to get it.... Details >
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services designed this page to help people get started thinking about Medicare drug coverage. The page provides individuals with drug coverage descriptions of com... Details >
The Medicare Modernization Act legislation provides seniors and people with disabilities with the first comprehensive prescription drug benefit ever offered under the Medicare program, the most signif... Details >
This page provides information about how to look at the cost, coverage, convenience, and peace of mind of Medicare drug coverage when selecting a plan that meets one’s needs.... Details >
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 >
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 >
Visit this site for information about medications prescribed for the treatment of obesity, their application, benefits and side effects.... Details >
Weight-Control Information Network, National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases
The Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and Modernization Act of 2003 was signed into law on December 8, 2003. The Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation has compiled some resources to reflect the lat... Details >
Medications can be effective when they are used properly, but some can be addictive and dangerous when misused. ... Details >
National Institute on Drug Abuse, National Institutes of Health
This page provides download lists of all National plans, all Stand-alone Prescription Drug Plans, and all Medicare Advantage and Other Health Plans, and 2006 Limited Income Premium Subsidy Amounts for... Details >
This article explains medicines to children including how medicines work to make them feel better and how doctors know which medicines to prescribe for their illness.... Details >