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Consumer Drug Reference

Author : Consumer Reports (Firm)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780975538821
Total Pages : 1928 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Drug Reference written by Consumer Reports (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 1928 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With thousands of prescription drugs available today, protecting yourself and your family should be a main priority. Consumers need to educate themselves on prescription and over-the-counter drugs and take an assertive role in managing their medications. The new 2006 edition of Consumers Drug Reference (CDR) can assist consumers on questions they have regarding their medication. Am I taking the right dosage? Does it conflict with other medication? Unlike other drug references, the CDR relies solely on medical experts for its facts, not drug manufacturers' package inserts. These experts have worked with the United States Pharmacopeias (USP) to provide: "Unbiased, authoritative information on more than 11,000 drugs; including vitamins, minerals and the newest drugs "Full color identification chart of pills and tablets "Drug precautions and side effects you should know before using "Correct dosage and information on missed dosage "General information about the use of medicine, plus a glossary with over 400 medical terms "Free link to the USP website for new and additional drug listings.

Consumer Drug Reference 2005

Author : Thompson Healt Micromedex
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890439937
Total Pages : 1876 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (399 download)

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Download or read book Consumer Drug Reference 2005 written by Thompson Healt Micromedex and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 1876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unlike other drug references, the CDR relies solely on medical experts for its facts--not drug manufacturers' package inserts. Includes full-color identification charts of pills and tables and unbiased information on more than 11,000 drugs, vitamins, and minerals.

Consumer Drug Reference

Author : United States Pharmacopeial Convention
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (9 download)

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Consumer Drug Reference

Author : United States Pharmacopeial Convention
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
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Consumer Drug Reference

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1880 pages
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Complete drug reference. 1993 edition

Author : United States Pharmacopeia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890436189
Total Pages : 1713 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (361 download)

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Download or read book Complete drug reference. 1993 edition written by United States Pharmacopeia and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 1713 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Drug Interaction Facts 2008

Author : David S. Tatro
Publisher : Lippincott Williams & Wilkins
ISBN 13 : 9781574392746
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Drug Interaction Facts 2008 written by David S. Tatro and published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drug Interaction Facts™ provides health professionals with a fast and accurate interaction screening tool, with over 12,000 monographs. In just seconds, potential interactions can be reviewed by class, generic drug, or trade name. Comprehensive information on drug/drug or drug/food interactions is provided in a unique and logical quick-reference format to enhance the speed and accuracy of therapeutic decision making. Drug Interaction Facts™ provides information on the onset, severity, and documentation of clinically significant interactions, including a review of their effects, mechanism, and management. Readers will also find discussion and assessment of the data used to document the interaction.

The Complete Drug Reference

Author :
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890439616
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (396 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Drug Reference written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The $800 Million Pill

Author : Merrill Goozner
Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 9780520246706
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (467 download)

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Download or read book The $800 Million Pill written by Merrill Goozner and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2005-10-10 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Goozner shows how drug innovation is driven by dedicated scientists intent on finding cures for diseases, not by pharmaceutical firms, whose bottom line often takes precedence over the advance of medicine. Stories of a university biochemist who spent twenty years searching for single blood protein that later became the best-selling biotech drug in the world, a government employee who discovered the causes for dozens of crippling genetic disorders, and the Department of Energy-funded research that made the Human Genome Project possible - these accounts illustrate how medical breakthroughs actually take place.".

The Truth About the Drug Companies

Author : Marcia Angell
Publisher : Random House Trade Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 0375760946
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)

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Download or read book The Truth About the Drug Companies written by Marcia Angell and published by Random House Trade Paperbacks. This book was released on 2005-08-09 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During her two decades at The New England Journal of Medicine, Dr. Marcia Angell had a front-row seat on the appalling spectacle of the pharmaceutical industry. She watched drug companies stray from their original mission of discovering and manufacturing useful drugs and instead become vast marketing machines with unprecedented control over their own fortunes. She saw them gain nearly limitless influence over medical research, education, and how doctors do their jobs. She sympathized as the American public, particularly the elderly, struggled and increasingly failed to meet spiraling prescription drug prices. Now, in this bold, hard-hitting new book, Dr. Angell exposes the shocking truth of what the pharmaceutical industry has become–and argues for essential, long-overdue change. Currently Americans spend a staggering $200 billion each year on prescription drugs. As Dr. Angell powerfully demonstrates, claims that high drug prices are necessary to fund research and development are unfounded: The truth is that drug companies funnel the bulk of their resources into the marketing of products of dubious benefit. Meanwhile, as profits soar, the companies brazenly use their wealth and power to push their agenda through Congress, the FDA, and academic medical centers. Zeroing in on hugely successful drugs like AZT (the first drug to treat HIV/AIDS), Taxol (the best-selling cancer drug in history), and the blockbuster allergy drug Claritin, Dr. Angell demonstrates exactly how new products are brought to market. Drug companies, she shows, routinely rely on publicly funded institutions for their basic research; they rig clinical trials to make their products look better than they are; and they use their legions of lawyers to stretch out government-granted exclusive marketing rights for years. They also flood the market with copycat drugs that cost a lot more than the drugs they mimic but are no more effective. The American pharmaceutical industry needs to be saved, mainly from itself, and Dr. Angell proposes a program of vital reforms, which includes restoring impartiality to clinical research and severing the ties between drug companies and medical education. Written with fierce passion and substantiated with in-depth research, The Truth About the Drug Companies is a searing indictment of an industry that has spun out of control.

Making Medicines Affordable

Author : National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309468086
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (94 download)

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Download or read book Making Medicines Affordable written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2018-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thanks to remarkable advances in modern health care attributable to science, engineering, and medicine, it is now possible to cure or manage illnesses that were long deemed untreatable. At the same time, however, the United States is facing the vexing challenge of a seemingly uncontrolled rise in the cost of health care. Total medical expenditures are rapidly approaching 20 percent of the gross domestic product and are crowding out other priorities of national importance. The use of increasingly expensive prescription drugs is a significant part of this problem, making the cost of biopharmaceuticals a serious national concern with broad political implications. Especially with the highly visible and very large price increases for prescription drugs that have occurred in recent years, finding a way to make prescription medicinesâ€"and health care at largeâ€"more affordable for everyone has become a socioeconomic imperative. Affordability is a complex function of factors, including not just the prices of the drugs themselves, but also the details of an individual's insurance coverage and the number of medical conditions that an individual or family confronts. Therefore, any solution to the affordability issue will require considering all of these factors together. The current high and increasing costs of prescription drugsâ€"coupled with the broader trends in overall health care costsâ€"is unsustainable to society as a whole. Making Medicines Affordable examines patient access to affordable and effective therapies, with emphasis on drug pricing, inflation in the cost of drugs, and insurance design. This report explores structural and policy factors influencing drug pricing, drug access programs, the emerging role of comparative effectiveness assessments in payment policies, changing finances of medical practice with regard to drug costs and reimbursement, and measures to prevent drug shortages and foster continued innovation in drug development. It makes recommendations for policy actions that could address drug price trends, improve patient access to affordable and effective treatments, and encourage innovations that address significant needs in health care.

Complete Drug Reference 1994

Author : U S Pharmacopeia
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780890436776
Total Pages : 1852 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (367 download)

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Download or read book Complete Drug Reference 1994 written by U S Pharmacopeia and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 1852 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled independently of drug manufacturers and based on thorough reviews and the consensus of hundreds of medical authorities, this completely objective and unbiased guide to virtually every medicine sold in the US and Canada is prepared by a nonprofit corporation which, for 173 years, has set the legal standard for strength, quality, purity, packaging, and labeling of drugs. Full-color insert.

Powerful Medicines

Author : Jerry Avorn, M.D.
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307489752
Total Pages : 476 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Powerful Medicines written by Jerry Avorn, M.D. and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2008-12-10 with total page 476 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: If you believe that the latest blockbuster medication is worth a premium price over your generic brand, or that doctors have access to all the information they need about a drug’s safety and effectiveness each time they write a prescription, Dr. Jerry Avorn has some sobering news. Drawing on more than twenty-five years of patient care, teaching, and research at Harvard Medical School, he shares his firsthand experience of the wide gap in our knowledge of the effectiveness of one medication as compared to another. In Powerful Medicines, he reminds us that every pill we take represents a delicate compromise between the promise of healing, the risk of side effects, and an increasingly daunting price. The stakes on each front grow higher every year as new drugs with impressive power, worrisome side effects, and troubling costs are introduced. This is a comprehensive behind-the-scenes look at issues that affect everyone: our shortage of data comparing the worth of similar drugs for the same condition; alarming lapses in the detection of lethal side effects; the underuse of life-saving medications; lavish marketing campaigns that influence what doctors prescribe; and the resulting upward spiral of costs that places vital drugs beyond the reach of many Americans. In this engagingly written book, Dr. Avorn asks questions that will interest every consumer: How can a product judged safe by the Food and Drug Administration turn out to have unexpectedly lethal side effects? Why has the nation’s drug bill been growing at nearly 20 percent per year? How can physicians and patients pick the best medication in its class? How do doctors actually make their prescribing decisions, and why do those decisions sometimes go wrong? Why do so many Americans suffer preventable illnesses and deaths that proper drug use could have averted? How can the nation gain control over its escalating drug budget without resorting to rationing or draconian governmental controls? Using clinical case histories taken from his own work as a practitioner, researcher, and advocate, Dr. Avorn demonstrates the impressive power of the well-conceived prescription as well as the debacles that can result when medications are misused. He describes an innovative program that employs the pharmaceutical industry’s own marketing techniques to reduce use of some of the most overprescribed and overpriced products. Powerful Medicines offers timely and practical advice on how the nation can improve its drug-approval process, and how patients can work with doctors to make sure their prescriptions are safe, effective, and as affordable as possible. This is a passionate and provocative call for action as well as a compelling work of clear-headed science.

Complete Drug Reference

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (12 download)

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The Future of Drug Safety

Author : Institute of Medicine
Publisher : National Academies Press
ISBN 13 : 0309133947
Total Pages : 346 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Future of Drug Safety written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2007-02-27 with total page 346 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the wake of publicity and congressional attention to drug safety issues, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) requested the Institute of Medicine assess the drug safety system. The committee reported that a lack of clear regulatory authority, chronic underfunding, organizational problems, and a scarcity of post-approval data about drugs' risks and benefits have hampered the FDA's ability to evaluate and address the safety of prescription drugs after they have reached the market. Noting that resources and therefore efforts to monitor medications' riskâ€"benefit profiles taper off after approval, The Future of Drug Safety offers a broad set of recommendations to ensure that consideration of safety extends from before product approval through the entire time the product is marketed and used.

Ident-A-Drug Reference

Author : Timothy Swaim
Publisher : Therapeutic Research Faculty
ISBN 13 : 9780974706214
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (62 download)

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Download or read book Ident-A-Drug Reference written by Timothy Swaim and published by Therapeutic Research Faculty. This book was released on 2004-02 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Identifies drug products by the codes imprinted on them. Includes brand name and generic products, from the United States and Canada. Gives a description of each product's colors, shape, graphics, and imprint code. The ingredients and strength of each ingredient are also shown.

The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2004

Author : James J. Rybacki, PharmD.
Publisher : Collins Reference
ISBN 13 : 9780060554095
Total Pages : 1424 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs 2004 written by James J. Rybacki, PharmD. and published by Collins Reference. This book was released on 2003-12-02 with total page 1424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs has been used for more than twenty-five years by informed consumers interested in obtaining full information about the medicines they take. Revised annually to help readers stay abreast of continual innovations in drug therapy, each edition continues to provide the detailed profiles of prescription drug information that families have come to expect and rely on. Each drug profile offers a great depth of information, which includes crucial facts about medical conditions and drug combinations that often require dosing adjustments. For example, if you or a family member suffers a liver or kidney ailment, you'll learn how medication dose or frequency may need to be modified to help avoid dangerous and unnecessary toxic drug reactions. Each of the more than 300 drug profiles opens with an easy-to-read informational box outlining the benefits and risks of the drug, followed by information on available dosage, forms, and strengths; examples of what the drug treats when used alone or as part of a combination drug product; the advisability of use during pregnancy or when nursing; adverse effects and common side effects; and much more. Ongoing research helps expand and shape our understanding of how diseases happen and often leads to the development of revolutionary new medicines. In "The Leading Edge," Dr. Rybacki makes readers aware of promising new medications awaiting FDA approval, and in "True Breakthroughs," he describes novel drugs recently approved by the FDA and also details previously undiscovered new uses for older medicines. A unique feature called "Typical Treatment Goals and Measurements" explains what your doctor is usually trying to accomplish with medicines to help you and your family stay at the center of care. Available without a prescription, an essential reference for every family For more than twenty-five years, The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs has helped families make sense of the overwhelming and often contradictory flood of information about their prescriptions. Filled with critical health information, this fully revised and updated edition provides more detailed and comprehensive profiles on the most important drugs in current use than any other reference source. You'll find: The benefits and risks of each drug highlighted in quick, easy-to-read reference boxes How each drug works and what to do if you miss a dose Comprehensive safety information -- including the latest details on dangerous drug combinations and interactions with herbal medicines Special precautions to take if you're over sixty, pregnant, or breastfeeding Cost-saving advice for both consumers and medical professionals 16 pages of color photographs of common prescription drugs And much more!