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

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #212666 in Books
• Published on: 2006-04-25
• Released on: 2006-04-25
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 1248 pages

Book Info
Consumer text provides official, FDA-approved drug information. Includes guidelines from leading pharmacists, generic and brand names, dosages, side effects and adverse reactions, and information for seniors, pregnant women, children, and others with special needs. Previous edition: c1998. Color plates are also included. Softcover.

Simon & Schuster
THE PILL BOOK ON CD-ROM
No home should be without this CD-ROM!
For over 15 years, millions of consumers have trusted The Pill Book to provide official, FDA approved drug information plus guidelines from leading pharmacists. Now the CD-ROM makes the book's readable, everyday language and easy-to-use format even more accessible. The Pill Book on CD-ROM is the perfect resource for information regarding prescription drugs and questions about medications your doctor prescribes. This CD-ROM delivers practical information such as:
What the drug is for, and how it works.
Usual doses, and what to do if a dose is skipped.
Side effects and possible adverse reactions.
Interactions with other drugs and food.
Emergency overdose instructions.
Cautions and warnings, and when to call your doctor. All searches are savable and all entries can be printed!

System Requirements:
486/33 CPU or better
Windows® 3.1 or Windows® 95
2X speed CD-Rom or better
SoundBlaster® sound card or compatible
8MB RAM
10 MB hard drive space

Inside Flap Copy
This new 9th edition of The Pill Book contains more profiles of commonly prescribed drugs than any other consumer reference.  Compiled by a team of eminent pharmacologists, it is based on official, FDA-approved information usually available only to doctors and pharmacists, plus the latest information gathered from computer databases and on-line resources.  It synthesizes the most important facts about each drug in a concise, readable, easy-to-understand entry.

No home should be without this book!

For nearly 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 consumer's guide to pills--more than 35 important new drugs approved for sale in 2000 and dozens of new brand names in this completely revised 9th edition.

With more than 11 million copies in print, The Pill Book is the best-selling consumer drug reference ever, offering the most up-to-date, comprehensive information, in a format designed for ease of use.

The most up-to-date information about the 1,500 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
Information for seniors, pregnant and breast-feeding women, children, and others with special needs
Cautions and warnings, and when to call your doctor

PLUS
32 pages of actual-size color photographs of most prescription pills

Customer Reviews

Much needed update
Anyone 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.

handy quick reference
handy 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!

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 effects of such meds, and other information such as warnings for each med. I like this particular book finding it more informative than others I've bought, and buy an updated copy at least every couple of years, but more preferably every year.