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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 615.103 EAN: 9780553588934 Edition: 13th ISBN: 0553588931 Label: Bantam Manufacturer: Bantam Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 1296 Publication Date: April 29, 2008 Publisher: Bantam Release Date: April 29, 2008 Studio: Bantam Editorial Review: Product Description: For more than two decades, millions of consumers have trusted The Pill Book to provide official, FDA-approved drug information plus guidelines from leading pharmacists. Each drug is profiled in a concise, readable, and easy-to-understand entry, making The Pill Book the perfect reference when you have questions about the medications your doctor prescribes. The most up-to-date information about the more than 1,800 most commonly prescribed drugs in the United States: • Generic and brand-name listings that can help you save money • What the drug is for, and how it works • Usual dosages, and what to do if a dose is skipped • Side effects and possible adverse reactions, highlighted for quick reference • Interactions with other drugs and food • Overdose and addiction potential • Alcohol-free and sugar-free medications • The most popular self-injected medications and their safe handling • Information for seniors, pregnant and breast-feeding women, children, and others with special needs • Cautions and warnings, and when to call your doctor • 32 pages of actual-size color photographs of prescription pills Average Rating:
 Rating:  - the pill bookThe Pill Book was very useful for my drug listing I had to do for school. It provided me with concise, useful information on the drugs that I was researching. I recommend other people to use the Pill Book. Rating:  - Much needed updateAnyone that has bought a previous edition, will want to update as this edition has many newer drugs that were not previously available. Only complaint is that it would be good to have pictures of the generics as so many people can no longer afford the brand name, and the generic pill can look very different. Rating:  - handy quick referencehandy guide for people who work in the nursing, mental health field or if you're just intersted in knowing about diffenet types of medications. One that I highly recommend is Worst Pills Best Pills, which comes out with a new edition every few years. Excellent! Rating: - The Pill Book (13th Edition) It is so important for those of us who take meds to have a copy of a book telling us the side effects of those meds, and listing the various meds which fall into the same family, mostly, but not limited to being able to watch and guard against being mistakenly prescribed something to which we are allergic, even when our doctors and pharmacies know to what we are allergic. We are that last line of defense against such things happening. Then last, but certainly not the least, to know the possible side ... Read More Rating: - It's good. It is has a very extensive picture guide but appears to be incomplete. I found pills the other day that couldn't be identified with the book. |
