Day: October 22, 2021

Medication errors causes thousands of deaths every year. More than 30% of those errors are the result of confusing medicine labels.1 If you’ve taken a lot of prescription medications or been a caregiver for someone who does, this might not surprise you. The average American reads at the 8th grade level, but medicine descriptions are written for college graduates.2 Then there’s the small print, the acronyms, the hard-to-find warning labels… Plus, the needlessly confusing instructions (I’m looking at you, “Take … Continue reading “Knowing how to read medicine labels saves lives”