When you’re picking up over-the-counter drugs or prescription medications, you’re focused on the ingredients that will make you feel better, not the ones that are along for the ride. But those ...

Anyone who has glanced at the back of a bottle of aspirin or a box of allergy tablets has seen it: the “Inactive Ingredients” list. All medications include compounds that help stabilize the drug or ...

Although inactive ingredients enhance a drug product’s physical properties and have been deemed safe, clinical reports documenting adverse reactions caused by excipients have been increasing. 1 In ...

Most approved medications have inactive ingredients that could cause problems for individuals with allergies or intolerances to those ingredients, researchers say. Those problems can add up when ...

Many of us take prescription medications regularly — from anti-depressants to migraine treatments — and we often assume that what's in them is just whichever ingredients are doing the work. However, a ...

Commonly prescribed oral medications in the U.S. are mostly made up of ingredients that have little to do with the condition being treated, a new study finds. These “inactive” substances, like lactose ...

If you could use a bit of digestive relief, double-check a few details before turning to this common gas reliever.

More than 90 percent of the medications that Americans take contain an inactive ingredient that could cause an allergic reaction, a new study suggests. Lactose, peanut oil, gluten and chemical dyes ...

Most prescription drugs contain at least one inactive ingrediant capable of causing adverse reactions, according to a new study. Researchers from Brigham and Women's Hospital at Harvard and ...

If you’ve looked at the ingredient list for a medication, you’ve probably seen that there are active ingredients - the part that has a biological function - and inactive ingredients - all the other ...

Some inactive ingredients commonly found in medicines may not be so inactive after all, according to a new study published today. Researchers found evidence in the lab that several ingredients, ...