The Essential Guide To Prescription Drugs

Lists and describes the most common prescription drugs in current use, discussing the benefits and risks of each, side effects, interactions, dosages, and essential precautions.

With more than two million copies sold in all editions, here is the resource every family needs to make safe and informed decisions about their medicines. Fully updated and revised, the EGPD features the most detailed drug profiles and fuller coverage than any other source. For nearly 25 years, the EGPD has helped families negotiate the overwhelming and often contradictory swirl of information about their prescription medicines. Packed with critical information for your family's health, this is the one–stop source for the lowdown on hundreds of herbal/prescription combinations to be avoided, medicines that require vitamin and mineral supplements, how to alter doses for infants, children, pregnant women and the elderly and much more. Covering more than 2,000 brands organized into nearly 400 profiles, the new EGPD weighs the benefits and risks for each drug, and includes detailed information on interactions and sorts all possible effects on vision, lungs, and even sexuality into easy–to–read tables.

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

232 pages covering 11 of the most widely used medicines in the United States, PLUS a mystery medicine to be revealed June 12, 2012 on www.EssentialGuideToPrescriptionDrugs.com. From Nexium to Diovan and statins to Botox, this first printed update since 2006 tells do's and don'ts of medicines that can save your life!