By Stephanie Kanowitz
May 05, 2021
The National Library of Medicine (NLM) retired its Pillbox website earlier this year after about a decade of providing a quick way for the public, medical workers and law enforcement to identify a pill.
By following prompts to submit descriptions of pills, Pillbox helped users narrow down which one they were trying to identify, according to a July 2010 GCN article. NLM released Pillbox in beta in 2009 as “a resource intended to enhance patient safety via an identification and reference system for solid dosage medications.” It combined pharmaceutical data from the Food and Drug Administration and NLM with high-resolution images.