Match each answer to a record.

Use the record that fits the question

Your state’s medical board publishes doctors’ licence details and penalties, along with formal charges: official accusations of breaking medical rules.

The initials FDA name the US Food and Drug Administration, which decides whether medicines receive approval.

For a pharmacy, FDA’s state lookup links lead to the state board’s licence search.

An FDA document may record a business or a product without approving it.

An entry for a business in FDA’s records may be described as “FDA registered”; listing a drug adds that product to its records.

US rules checked September 26, 2026 gave neither kind of entry the power to approve a drug or make its sale lawful.

For an approval claim, ask for the entry in FDA’s Drugs@FDA approval database and the official medicine label. Match the product name and proposed use.

Keep the date attached

Medicine status and prices shown in these chapters reflect the source checks of September 26, 2026.

The sources explaining doctor and pharmacy licence checks, and FDA’s MedWatch service for reporting medicine problems, were read on September 17, 2026.

Those dates say when the sources for this guide were read. They do not mean that your doctor or pharmacy was checked. Search their current licence records before relying on them.

No published penalty does not prove good care

Finding no published action against a doctor does not measure the quality of their care.

State boards differ in what they publish, so their records are not lists of every complaint a patient has made.

Write down what you found. Ask the doctor or the relevant board about anything the record leaves unanswered.