The Essential Guide To Prescription Drugs 1994

This matchless authority and bestseller now features important information on 250 prescription drugs used by millions of consumers. Complete with tables and a glossary of drug-related terms, this guide is without a doubt the reference of choice for today's discriminating consumers. "Excellent. . . . A PDR for patients".--Journal of the American Pharmaceutical Association. Index.

Be an active partner in your health care! The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs provides more detailed and comprehensive profiles on the most important drugs currently in use than any other reference source available to the general public. The most trusted source of information for over twenty years, this fully revised and updated edition features cost-saving advice for consumers as well as tips on how pharmacists and physicians can control medical costs, making it a resource doctors, pharmacists, and other health-care professionals will also want to consult. Within each drug profile, you'll find: the benefits versus the risks of the drug highlighted in an easy-to-read, quick reference box how the drug is supplied, including brand names and available generics what the drug is used for -- including hard-to-find unlabeled uses how the drug works, and what to do if you miss a dose how safe it is to take, including the possible risks of taking it and interactions with herbal or prescription medicines possible effects of the drug on sexual function whether it's safe to use if you're pregnant or breastfeeding precautions to take if you're over sixty

Since 1978 The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs has delivered timely and accurate reader-friendly information about medicines to people without a medical background and even helpful to those who do. Dr. James J Rybacki, a nationally known doctor of pharmacy introduces the first Essential Guide on an experimental Drug that treats COVID-19. This is the first Essential Guide to examine a drug as it moves toward FDA approval-providing an accurate and important snapshot of key information as only the Essential Guide can do. The Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs, Update on Remdesivir offers an easy-to-read 24-page drug profile format with key information on dosing from the FDA Emergency Use Authorization, emerging research and use, guidelines your doctor might be following, what to talk to your doctor about and a listing of balanced and objective web sites for further reading. How does this drug work? The EGPD Update on Remdesivir has the answers, including seven smart dosing essentials and what should you watch for while taking this drug. Dr. Rybacki details important information and even covers herbal medicines of interest. When medicines matter, readers trust the Essential Guide to Prescription Drugs.