Website to Help Pill Identification

NIH web tool aims to help identify pills.
CNN (9/10) reported in The Chart blog, "Poison control centers get more than 1 million calls a year about medicines that need to be identified. And maybe you've been in situations when pills seem to wander away from their labeled bottles, and you don't know what they are." Now, however, "the National Institutes of Health is developing a way to quickly identify medications based on appearance. Pillbox, in its beta testing phase, gives possibilities for your mystery pill based on its shape, color, size, imprint, and 'scoring.'" In addition, there is "an advanced search so you can go the other way: Search for a drug and see what it's supposed to look like." Notably, "the National Library of Medicine and the Food and Drug Administration are working on photographing more pills."