Background The purpose of patient information leaflets (PILs) is to inform patients about the administration, precautions and potential side effects of their prescribed medication. Despite European ...

Australia’s Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) issued guidance Wednesday to aid industry in following best practices for patient implant cards and patient information leaflets. Medical device ...

Depending on your pharmacy for information on the side effects and potentially deadly interactions of prescription medications could be putting your life in jeopardy. More than 10,000 Americans die ...

Last week, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) published the proposed rule “Medication Guides: Patient Medication Information,” which would significantly change the agency’s prescription drug ...

For every medical pamphlet we get at doctors’ offices and throw straight into the recycling bin, it seems there are 10 others that clutter our cars and purses, unread. Certainly, as two new studies ...

The NHS's patient information leaflets are "inaccurate, inconsistent, and confusing – and effort is duplicated" argues GP Margaret McCartney on bmj.com. In a feature published today, Dr McCartney says ...

Callum Metcalfe O'Shea advises how to manage a middle-aged male patient with hypertension who is refusing to take his ...

Statins do not cause most of the side effects listed in their package leaflets, including memory loss, depression, sleep disturbance, and erectile and sexual dysfunction, UK research has concluded. A ...

A Doctor has given BBC Morning Live viewers key questions they should ask their GP whenever they’re given a prescription.

The study was approved by the research ethics committee of the University of Witten/Herdecke, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. Out of 43 patients recruited by their GPs, 35 (9 women) agreed to ...