Lake Towakoni resident Linda Lilley thought she was taking her pain medication Gabapentin, but she says her bottle contained Gemfibrozil- a cholesterol medication which looked very similar to ...

The Hy-Vee Pharmacy at 410 N. Ankeny Blvd. in Ankeny, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth) An Ankeny pharmacy has been fined $1,000 for dispensing the wrong medication to a customer and then failing to ...

DES MOINES, Iowa (IOWA CAPITAL DISPATCH) - Three Iowa Walgreens stores have been fined by the state for medication-dispensing errors, two of which date back to early 2023. According to the Iowa Board ...

Each year, millions of patients are affected by medication errors, resulting in tens of billions of dollars in unnecessary healthcare costs. 1 To better manage common dispensing errors, many ...

The family says Rosezena Jackson's throat swelled so much that doctors were barely able to intubate her when she arrived at the hospital. (Photo: Craig Family){p}{/p} WASHINGTON (7News) — When 74-year ...

Amid rising diagnoses, a growing number of kids are getting prescriptions for ADHD medications — but the administered doses aren’t always accurate. Medication ...

Through a personal experience in her own life, Mandi Hall, a Microsoft senior user researcher, came to learn about the high rate of preventable medical errors in the US. The instances of medication ...

Research in the International Journal of Human Factors and Ergonomics has examined outpatient prescribing and found that overworked pharmacists as well as systemic workplace flaws can lead to ...

In April 2008, Baystate Medical Center (BMC), a 653-bed teaching hospital in Springfield, MA, began implementation of its Bar Code Point of Care technology to positively impact medication ...

DALLAS (CBS11 I-TEAM) – The CBS 11 I-Team has learned there are more than 2.3 million prescription drug dispensing errors made every year in pharmacies across the United States. Lake Towakoni resident ...