The insert that comes in all prescriptions is full of important importation (and you should read it), but isn’t the easiest to see (such teeny-tiny font) or fully comprehend (oh so many words). We wanted to find a way to better engage people and help direct them to the information they really should know! From this came our idea to put fun and informative cartoons onto the pharmacy bags customers get when they fill prescriptions.

For this pilot program, we created 4 unique stickers addressing topics of common confusion. From there we expanded to include this website and a partnership with Lifeology to create longer online courses that go into more detail about these concepts.

Decode Rx is a collaboration that came out of winning the inaugural 2020 #SciCommMake competition, founded by Sigma Xi and Science Talk. The aim of this competition is to combine art and science as a means to inform and educate.