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Monthly Archive for October 2008

PillGirl Test Drives the Top Pill I.D. Web Sites in Pursuit of an Answer

masked pill

IT’S BEEN SITTING in the bowl where I toss stray stuff that I’ll figure out what to do with later. But this indistinctive yellow pill—round, scored, and faintly marked—well, I can’t remember what it does. I think it got separated from its bottle when I was packing for a trip and threw it into a container of just-in-case pills. At the time, I was familiar enough with them to identify them by sight, but now, over a year later, I realize I should have sorted them back into their labeled bottles when I got home.

But why let a silly little mystery render a potentially palliative (and probably expensive) pill useless? Especially when there’s a World Wide Web of drug data begging to be explored …

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