Science reveals there are a few reasons pharmacists don’t just send you home with any old color bottle. Here are four main ...

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 quite the collection of those plastic orange pill bottles with the ...

No matter where you get your prescriptions filled, chances are they come in an orange bottle with a child-proof white cap. But where did this ubiquitous design come from, and why does it look like ...

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 ...