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 ...

Did you know that Lunesta will help you fall asleep just 15 minutes faster? Or that a higher dose of the osteoporosis drug Zometa could damage a cancer patient's kidneys and raise their risk of death?

Who among us has not received prescription drugs in a container bearing more labels than a NASCAR vehicle has decals? Information and warning labels are applied to medicine bottles and packages, the ...

The "morning-after pill" was in the crosshairs of the anti-abortion movement. After more than two decades on the market, the emergency contraception drug Plan B One-Step will get a new label by ...