Patients with sensitivities to medications or their inactive ingredients ('excipients') often use NIH's DailyMed website to look up excipients or alternative drug formulations that might work better for them.  This is important as 38 "inactive" ingredients have been reported to cause allergic reactions at the doses found in medications.  Data Scientist Mike Brook explains the research project that found excipient list inconsistencies in ~40% of DailyMed drug product labels, and what sensitive patients can do about it.

The articles discussed are here and here.

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