Labeling refers to the label on the drug container and all printed materials, including the package insert, that accompanies the product. Labeling of a drug indicates that there is substantial evidence from adequate and well controlled clinical trials for the safe and effective use of that drug. Labeling provides important information on clinical pharmacology, indications and usage, contraindic...

For analyzing prescription datasets, usually one wishes to identify drugs by classes, rather than by U.S. FDANational Drug Codes. We demonstrate how to utilize the NLM RxNorm online API to map NDCs to WHOAnatomical-Therapeutic-Chemical classes, and present statistics and caveats of mapping 71,309 NDCs found inMedicare Part D claims from 2006 to 2013 and 134,580 NDCs found in a c...

Patient noncompliance to current tuberculosis (TB) therapy owing to multidrug administration daily leads to treatment failure and emergence of multidrug resistant and extensively drug resistant TB. To avoid the daily dosing, application of nanotechnology is the only viable solution by virtue of sustained release of drugs. Other potential advantages of the system include the possibility of selec...