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How to Use This Site

Your resource is arranged into six sections. The first section offers insight into modern drug therapy, and gives you helpful tips on preventing Bad Med Syndrome. "True Breakthroughs in Medicines" will help identify completely new medicines that have gained FDA approval, or are the first new agents in many _years to treat an existing disease or condition.

Section Two gives you detailed Drug Profiles covering more than 2,000 brand-name prescription drugs and nearly 400 widely used generic medicines. Selection of each drug is based on three criteria: the extent of its use, the urgency of the conditions it treats, and the volume and complexity of information essential to its proper use. You'll find that the Profiles are arranged alphabetically by generic name. Read carefully to be sure you have the correct medicine.

Each Profile is presented in the same way and once you become familiar with the format, you'll be able to quickly find specific information on any drug. Unlike other imitators, each Essential Drug Profile contains at least 45 helpful categories of information, including:

Year Introduced

Remember, the longer the drug has been in general use, the more likely all of its actions are known and the less likely ongoing use will produce new problems. This will help identify those medicines that are more likely to be more fully understood both because they have been in existence for a longer time period and have also been widely used.

Drug Class

Drug classes are like families-in fact, some of the profiles giving information about medicines from the same class have been arranged into Medication Family Profiles. Many actions, reactions, and interactions with other drugs are often shared by drugs of the same class. For example, if you are allergic to one cephalosporin, you most likely will be allergic to a second ceplzatosporin. By the same logic, if a medicine in a certain class has not helped you, ft is likely that a second one from the same class will do you little good.

Prescription Required

Just because a medicine does not require a prescription (over-the-counter) does not mean the medicine is not strong. Remember, over the last ten years there has been a great shift in medicines from prescription to nonprescription. Current examples include medicines for yeast infections, patches and gum to help you stop smoking, as well as ulcer medicines (histamine H2 blockers) that can also be used to prevent or treat heartburn. Virtually all of these medicines were previously available only by prescription. Always mention nonprescription medicine use when asked about the "medicines" you take.