This is the sixth edition of Medicines: The Comprehensive Guide - the mostpopular and best-selling dictionary-style reference source-book for therange of medicines, along with possible side-effects, that is available in the UKtoday. Previous editions of this book have sold almost two million copies. Thetext has been extensively revised - to take account of the many new drugs,both generic and proprietary, as well as entire new drug groups, that have beendeveloped and marketed since publication of the fifth edition in 2000.Changes in details of those medicines that remain on the market are alsoincluded. Requests from the public have led to the inclusion in this edition ofexpanded warnings about possible interactions between drugs with othermedicines - especially those that can be obtained without a prescription -herbal remedies and nutritional supplements. There is also an expandedglossary of medical terms, which hopefully readers will find useful inunderstanding some of the more technical terms.