Drug slang and code words are often used to describe controlled substances, designer drugs, and synthetic compounds, which may cause confusion for clinicians attempting to treat patients under the ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has mandated that pharmaceutical companies put bar codes on all drugs dispensed in hospitals, a move HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson called a key ...

Schematic diagram of the method of mapping Japanese and international drug codes. (a) To extract the correspondence table between the YJ code of the Japanese drug code and the National Drug Code (NDC) ...

The change is part of an update by the Food and Drug Administration to standardise the drug codes used to identify medicines in the US.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- Federal law enforcement agents needed a dictionary of street-talk terminology to comprehend cell phone conversations between suspected West Side drug lords and their underlings. Armed ...