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Touted as the first and only compendium of FDA-approved prescription drug labeling. No better source of information on the indications and manufacturers prescribing guidelines.

Information on 3000 pharmaceutical drugs, by brand and generic or chemical name. The PDR includes information on side-effects.

Code of Federal Regulations 201.100(d)(1) pertains to labeling for prescription products, requiring PDR content for "indications, effects, dosages, routes, methods, and frequency and duration of administration and any relevant warnings, hazards, contgraindications, side effects, and precautions" in the same language as approved for labeling.

However, as stated in the Foreward, the FDA does not limit the manner in which a physician may use an approved drug.… (mehr)