So, why are pill bottles orange? Why don’t we use different colors? It turns out that the orange hue doesn’t just harken back to the days when apothecaries offered amber vials for the public.

As a child who had to take a lot of medication—I grew up in the era when they gave you antibiotics if you sneezed twice—I had ...

The pill’s color Its shape Its imprint code (the text imprinted on or carved into the pill) The imprint code is the most important detail, and it’s often the only information you need to ...

U.S. health agencies announced that the food industry will begin "phasing out" eight artificial food dyes in the coming years ...