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FDA Study Finds Private-Sector Consumer Medication Information not Consistently Useful

By Jessica Smagacz

pp class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01926.html"FDA /areleased the results of a study today finding printed consumer medication information voluntarily provided by retail pharmacies with new prescriptions does not provide user friendly, easy to read information about the use and risks of medications. /p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"The study is called i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal"a href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01926.html"Expert and Consumer Evaluation of Consumer Medication Information/a/i. It showed that most consumers received consumer medication information with new prescriptions but only 75 percent of the information received met the minimum criteria for usefulness as FDA says was defined by a panel of stakeholders./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"Apparently in 1996, Congress called for a total of 95 percent of new prescriptions to have consumer medication information by 2006. /p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"What should the consumer medication information contain?/p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"a href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01926.html"FDA /asays that it should contain the drug name and uses, how to monitor for improvement for the condition being treated, serious symptoms or frequent adverse reactions, general information, and situations where the medication will not be useful./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt"FDA plans on holding a public meeting to discuss the studyrsquo;s findings in the beginning of 2009. To learn more information regarding this topic, please see the a href="http://www.fda.gov/bbs/topics/NEWS/2008/NEW01926.html"FDA report/a./p p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 10pt" /p p /p/pa href="http://atlanta.injuryboard.com/fda-and-prescription-drugs/fda-study-finds-privatesector-consumer-medication-information-not-consistently-useful-.aspx?googleid=253532"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Jessica-Smagacz"Jessica Smagacz/a

Full post as published by Atlanta Personal Injury Lawyer on December 17, 2008 (boomark / email).