&quot;More than 300 studies indicate that health-related materials far exceed the average reading ability of U.S. adults.&quot;<p>&quot;90 million adults with limited health literacy cannot fully benefit from much that the health and health-care system have to offer.&quot;<p>&quot;A two-year-old is diagnosed with an inner ear infection and prescribed an antibiotic. Her mother understands that her daughter should take the prescribed medication twice a day. After carefully studying the label on the bottle and deciding that it doesn&#x27;t tell how to take the medicine, she fills a teaspoon and pours the antibiotic into her daughter&#x27;s painful ear.&quot;<p><a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hospitals.unm.edu&#x2F;health_literacy&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;HealthLiteracyExecutiveSummary.pdf" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;hospitals.unm.edu&#x2F;health_literacy&#x2F;pdfs&#x2F;HealthLiteracy...</a>