When you get sick these days, the remedy could become more dangerous than the illness.

Drug companies are supposed to include important printed information with your prescription. But it doesn't always work the way it's supposed to.

A government study finds major problems with the leaflets that are supposed to tell you about risks and side effects.

The study says in some cases the leaflets leave out potentially life saving warnings.

Lisa Hanson relies on heart medication to keep her going. But before taking her pills, she reads the information leaflets she gets from her pharmacy.

The problem is your local drugstore could be giving you pill printouts that fail to describe what the risks really are; in fact, a study released by the Food and Drug Administration shows many leaflets leave out life and death warnings.

Larry Sasich, a Pharmacist says, "to omit that kind of information from patients, I can only describe as being disgraceful."

Researchers compared store leaflets for several popular drugs. The findings might surprise you, one in three leaflets failed to warn.

It can be deadly if mixed with Viagra and, most leaflets for the cholesterol drug Lipitor failed to mention the critical need for liver tests.

At Wichita's Medicine Shoppe, pharmacist Ricky Tejeda says incomplete printed information happens routinely at drugstores.

Tejeda says the problem gets even worse for patients who use more than one drugstore. Multiple drugstores make it hard for the pharmacist to give patients information leftout of the leaflets like drug interaction warnings.

Anne Trontell, from the FDA says there were some deficiencies noted, while some leaflets did a good job, others didn't. She says some of their efforts is to understand why it happens.

Still, for the time being the FDA has no mandatory guidelines when it comes to printed drug information and for Lisa Hanson, that's enough to make her heart race.

Consumer groups want the FDA to regulate patient information leaflets and approve all content, but the FDA says it will first explore ways to improve the current system before taking more drastic measures.

Experts say the best thing you can do to stay safe is be sure to talk to your doctor and pharmacist about any and all side-effects concerning the medication you take.