Every prescription drug comes with a warning label telling doctors how to prescribe it safely.
The FDA is changing the labels to help doctors spot the most important safely in a glance. Here is the new format. The Food and Drug Administration announced plans yesterday to simplify the warning labels that doctors rely on in prescribing medications. Agency officials and drug safety experts say the move could help reduce deadly medication mix-ups and other prescribing errors. With more and more new prescription drugs being approved each year, and more prescriptions being written, experts say patients face a growing risk that they will be killed or injured by the medications that are supposed to help them.