Prescription Drug Side Effects, Interactions Sending More Patients to Hospitals
As more and more conditions are being managed by medications, patients across the country are relying on their doctors and pharmacists more than ever before. In 2010, Americans spent over $300 billion on
US Supreme Court to Hear Drug Marketing Case on Tuesday
In the modern world of medical record keeping, enormous amounts of data are generated by family doctors and pharmacies in the course of caring for and treating their patients. These data can be analyzed [...]
Preventing Pharmacy Errors Would Result in Fewer Injuries, Huge Savings
In 2009, nearly 4 billion prescriptions were dispensed in the United States, according to one study. With so many prescriptions being filled – and with pharmacists under pressure to quickly fill orders and [...]
Bill Introduced to Repeal Drug Industry Immunity in Michigan
For years, Michigan has granted legal immunity to drug manufacturers whose drugs have been approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). If a drug is later found to have [...]
Dangerous Prescription Errors Far Too Common
Each year, over 3 billion prescriptions are dispensed in the United States. Patients depend on these medications for their well-being, and it is important that the dispensing pharmacy accurately fill [...]
Hospital Pharmacies Crucial to Patient Safety
When we think of hospital workers, we often think of physicians, nurses, nursing assistants, and technicians. These are the people we see face-to-face during a stay in the [...]
Keeping Your Kids Safe From Substance Abuse
Drug and alcohol abuse among teenagers is alarmingly prevalent. Perhaps the most frightening aspect of this epidemic is that very few parents are aware that their children [...]
Balancing the cost of cheaper medicine
Outsourcing may affect more than just American labor conditions. It could very well affect the availability of safe prescription medication. Only 13% of pharmaceutical plants used to [...]
Prescription Drug Dispensing Errors – How To Avoid Pharmacy/Pharmacist Mistakes
According to the Journal of The American Medical Association (JAMA) a report published 10 years ago, found that prescription drugs killed over 100,000 people in [...]
Medical Mixups; Hospital Prescription Drug Error Can Lead to Deaths
We have been aware of the shocking reality that 98,000 hospitalized patients die each year in the United States due to error for nearly a decade. What has [...]
