Have you heard about the other kind of black box? Not the kind in an airplane, but the kind on your prescription medications. A black box on the label or printed materials with your prescription medications can indicate the potential life threatening side effects. Let’s keep things in perspective here — if transportation was labeled like medication, lots of methods of travel would earn black boxes. And NOT taking a black box medication may be even more deadly than taking it. Avandia (a diabetes medication) received a black box warning in May 2007 for slightly raising a person’s chances of … Continue reading →