Le guide des médicaments vendus sans ordonnance

Synopsis of Le guide des médicaments vendus sans ordonnance

«Le guide des médicaments vendus sans ordonnance» is the medicines guide by Jean-Paul Giroud and Charles Gilles Hagège, in paperback (Editions du Rocher).

The guide compares the real effectiveness of 4000 over-the-counter medicines with the promises of advertising. The authors organise and evaluate the drugs using clinical criteria, offering data so that readers can distinguish what is proven from what is merely commercial before deciding on their medication.

Published in 1991, the work has 1079 pages and is written in French; it belongs to the Equilibre collection.

Aimed at consumers who want to inform themselves before taking non-prescription medicines and at readers interested in health and pharmacology.