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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A new study warns the 'inactive' ingredients often featured in pills and capsules may have a negative effect on some people who consume them. The fillers may include lactose, fructose, and other ...

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 ...

What’s in that pill you just swallowed? The label on the bottle lists the drug’s active and inactive ingredients, but new research concludes some of those “inactive” ingredients aren’t so inactive.

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, ...