Chances are you’ve come in contact with a label today. Whether it’s the nutrition label on your breakfast bar or the washing directions on your favorite shirt, labels are part of our daily lives, and ...

Fighting a cold and elbowing through the pharmacy line, the last thing sick people feel like doing is reading a long label. But one doctor says taking a few minutes to look for a few specific things ...

Kids ages 5 to 11 can now be vaccinated against COVID-19 following the Food and Drug Administration’s emergency use authorization of the Pfizer Bio-NTech vaccine for this age group and the Centers for ...

The study was commissioned by the British National Formulary, the textbook used by pharmacists, doctors and nurses for drug information. It said phrases like "avoid alcoholic drink" could be ...

When it comes to prescription drug labels, a single misinterpreted word could have dire effects. The word “once,” for example, might be used to tell an English speaker to take a dosage once a day. In ...

NEW YORK – Computer programs pharmacists rely on to translate prescription labels for non-English speaking customers often produce potentially harmful errors, new research indicates. Examples include ...