Reference Guide for Prescription and Non-prescription Medicines

 

The Internet’s most comprehensive free source of information on prescription and non-prescription medicines

  

  Welcome traveler to our new hubs on everything you need to know about a prescription or non-prescription medicines on the market today.  If you need information on a particular medicine that has been prescribed by your physician or want to check information on non-prescription medicines, then this is the place for you.  Here you will find information on how the medicine you’re taking should help your present condition, whether you taking the right dosage for the medicine, whether the particular medicine you’re currently taking will interfere with other medicines or foods you might be ingesting.  What particular areas your doctor should be monitoring while your on you’re medication, what you should do if you miss a dose and the side effects that might be serious and what you should do to combat them if they occur?

 

  These reference hubs are designed to help make the tricky job of taking a medication as easy, as valuable and as safe as possible for individuals taking each individual medicine.  Medicines are expensive, taking them the wrong way will make them inefficient and a waste of money and time and potentially hazardous to the individual.  In 2005, for example, 464,068 adverse drug events were reported to the US Food and Drug Administration; 18% of these (84,770) were categorized as potentially life threatening.

 

  Important directions about how to take medicines can be hard to find, those supplied by your pharmacist will probably be insufficient, the wrong information or even so much information that you’re on information overload. 

  The advertisements for such drugs cannot be trusted to tell you the truth, they are really only interested in the benefits and selling the product.  This series of hubs will help curve these problems for many looking for information on a particular medicine they have been prescribed or non-prescription medicine they might be taking or considering.

 

  The information in these hubs will be on over 12,000 medicines just about every possible drug in Canada or the United States will be included when were finished and more are being added all the time so we will have periodic updates on new medicines available.

 

  The medicines are arranged alphabetically, at the bottom of this hub you will find a link to the first medicines reviewed and each successive hub will have a link to the next medicine.  If you want to use these hubs to find a particular medicine, and then use the search box on the hubpages.com homepage, just put the generic or brand name into the box and click.  You may have to look on a list to find it but it will be present, were working on a way to link them together for you.

 Notice:The information contained within theses hubs is not intended for individual advice, but should be in addition to the information and instructions that your doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare professional has talked with you about.  The medicine listing here are summaries of available data and do not contain all of the warnings, precautions, side effects, possible drug interactions, or other data that may be related to the use of the medicine.  The listing do address the manufacturer’s information accompanying the drug or medicine, but not all the content is the same, and we have included additional information gained from additional sources.  The information provided here is not intended to provide a comprehensive background for individuals to evaluate the risks and benefits of using a medicine reviewed for your medical condition or disease.  The information here should be reviewed, in addition to any other sources, with your doctor, pharmacist, or other healthcare professionals if you have any questions about a medicine you’re taking and/or how it might affect your medicine condition.  Always talk to a pharmacist or doctor if you require additional information about any medicine.  The nature of the information contained within these hubs is constantly shifting because of additional research and emerging knowledge from the ongoing use of the drug in patients.  Any data about medicines is usually subject to interpretation and the uniqueness of each patient and his or her medical condition.  We have taken the utmost care to ensure the accuracy of the information presented, but the reader is advised that the author, editors, reviewers, contributors, and publishers cannot be responsible that the information remains up to date or for any errors or omissions in these hubs or for any associated consequence of the uses the information is put to.  Because of the ever changing nature of drug information, the reader should know that choices regarding medicine or medical care should always be based on a doctor’s judgment, changing information about a drug and shifting medical procedures.  If however, after reading and reviewing any information contained within these hubs or other sources.  You have any special concerns about the medication that you have been prescribed by you’re doctor; you should first talk to your doctor before you make any changes in the methods used to ingest or use any medication.  Drugs are consumed under many brand (trade) names and these are included with the information provided on these lists to make it easier to reference a specific product.

  Well that is it for this hub on explaining how these hubs on prescription medicines and drugs consumed will work.  If you’re ready to look for any particular medicine you might be taking, then let’s go find it shall we, the first link is below.  We here at hub pages hope you’re able to find the information you require, if you have any suggestions, medicines you would like included, please leave us a comment and we will find the information for you.  Well if you’re ready to go, happy hubbing!