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Although medicines can make you feel better and help you get well, it’s important to know that all medicines have risks as well as benefits.
Some of the risks involved with taking medicines include:
- harmful reactions when the medicine is combined with certain foods, drinks, vitamins, and traditional or other medicines
- the medicine not working as expected
- the medicine causing additional health problems.
Generic medicines brochures
This bilingual brochure has information about generic medicines, to help you get to know your medicine options.
View or print brochures in your language:
- Generic medicines brochure: Italian-English (opuscolo sulle medicine generiche)
- Generic medicines brochure: Simplified Chinese-English (非专利药品小册子)
- Generic medicines brochure: Traditional Chinese-English (非專利藥物小冊子)
- Generic medicines brochure: Vietnamese-English (Tài liệu về ‘Các loại thuốc có cùng một gốc’)
- Generic medicines brochure: Greek-English (Φυλλάδιο για τα γενόσημα φάρμακα)
