Drugs / Vitamins

 

A drug is a medicine (not food) used to prevent, diagnose, treat, or cure disease. A vitamin is a substance that is needed to live. Vitamins are found in very small amounts in food. If a person does not get enough of a specific vitamin, he or she becomes sick with a vitamin deficiency disease.

 

This section includes information about children and:

  • antibiotics
  • chemotherapy
  • herb and drug interactions
  • medications
  • minerals
  • new drugs
  • orphan drugs
  • over the counter drugs
  • minerals
  • vitamins




 
Visit these websites for more information:

Children and Medicines - The United States Pharmacopeial Convention, Inc.

Drug Information - U.S. National Library of Medicine and the National Institutes of Health

Drugs & Herbs - WebMD

Listing of Newly Approved Drug Therapies (2003) - Thomson Centerwatch