Product Description: The use of therapeutic drugs is on the rise in the United States, and many Americans use more than one prescription or over-the-counter drug for everything from minor aches and pains to life-sustaining medication. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 48 percent of Americans used a prescription drug in 2008, marking a rise in the use of prescription drugs over previous years...read more

Alphabetically organized according to generic name and furnishing tips on reading a prescription label, a guide to prescription drugs offers detailed profiles of more than 170 individual medications.

A reference specially designed for readers aged fifty and over lists the most commonly used prescription drugs as well as their related dosages, food and drug interactions, and possible side effects. Original.

Outlines different types of drugs including prescription, over-the-counter, and recreational ones, with a brief description of each and how they can be beneficial or harmful. (view table of contents)

Product Description: Exhaustive reference book containing up-to-date, accurate information - derived from an electronic database that's updated continually - on more than 3,000 generic and brand name medications.

Product Description: An easy guide to the most common prescription, over-the-counter and brand-name drugs--as well as the most commonly used natural therapies. The heart of the book is an A-to-Z encyclopedia of more than 1,000 drugs and natural medicines--one entry for each remedy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Contains complete articles from the Fourth Edition of the Kirk-Othmer Encyclopedia of Chemical Technology. Covering topics such as analgesics, antipyretics, antibacterial agents, cardiovascular agents and more, it will also serve as a current source of information for synthetic methods, properties, usage and the research and development of chemotherapeutics...read more