But "patients do better with more specific directions," says William Shrank, M.D., an assistant professor at Harvard Medical School who studies the effectiveness of patient drug labels.

"If you don't have a take-back location nearby, you can dispose of your medication in your household garbage. But you should ...

Prescription abbreviations like qd, hs, or bid can sometimes be found on your medication labels. These abbreviations are derived from the Latin words for "every day," "at bedtime," and "twice ...

To protect their privacy, patients should remove all personally identifiable information from medication labels or packaging before disposing of unwanted medicine. Once the items are received ...

Patients with limited English proficiency at UCHealth may have access to prescription medication labels in their primary language. UCHealth launched a program in February that translates prescription ...

What does it mean to prescribe a medicine “off label”? Is this fraudulent? Can a doctor get in trouble for this? -- A.S. ANSWER: The U.S. FDA approves drugs for specific medical indications ...

Even if the drug label on mifepristone is changed to reflect ... “That sounds fine and good when it’s a really concerning medication, but it makes no sense for mifepristone, which we know ...

Patients with limited English proficiency at UCHealth may have access to prescription medication labels in their primary language. UCHealth launched a program in February that translates ...