My Health Information
Keeping track of your medicines is crucial to your healthcare. This record will help you and your healthcare team make more informed decisions about your treatment. Click here for 'My Health Information.'
Managing the Benefits and Risks of Medicine
Although medicines can make you feel better and help you get well, it’s important to know that all medicines, both prescription and over-the-counter, have risks as well as benefits.
Managing the Benefits and Risks.pdf (65.93 KB)
Safety
Safety is our highest priority. Learn how the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and America’s research-based pharmaceutical companies are working to protect patient safety and keep America’s medicine supply the world’s safest.
Medicine Safety
There are more than 10,000 safe and effective prescription medicines available today. America’s pharmaceutical companies play a critical role in establishing and monitoring the safety of our medicines. Learn more about the medicine safety life cycle.
Patient Safety
American patients can have a high degree of confidence in the quality, effectiveness, and safety of their prescription medicines. However, every medicine carries potential benefits and risks. Learn what patients can do to take their medicines safely.
"Drug safety monitoring is an ongoing process. It begins long before the product enters the marketplace, and continues long after it has been made available to patients." – PhRMA’s Billy Tauzin