News|Articles|October 11, 2012

First universal medication labeling standards may lead to better adherence

With medication misuse resulting in more than 1 million adverse drug events per year in the United States, new standards released today by the U.S. Pharmacopeia Convention (USP) for the first time, provide a universal approach to the format, appearance, content, and language of instructions for medicines in containers dispensed by pharmacists.


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