Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Anne Moronski was excited about the next phase of her life. After seven years at a therapeutic boarding school in ...

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 ...

Additional updates are needed to reduce the risk of medication errors associated with automated dispensing cabinets, the Institute for Safe Medication Practices said May 31. Since 2019, ISMP has ...

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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 ...

Medication mistakes — in which the wrong drug or the wrong dose is given to a patient — are among the most common errors in medicine. John Wiederspan is well aware of how things can go wrong in the ...

Credit: Getty Images. In this month's case, an error went unrecognized for months despite numerous opportunities for its discovery. As much as we wish it weren’t so ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2006;63(11):1022-1028. Q: How can potential medication errors be minimized when dispensing investigational drugs to better ensure patient safety and improve adherence to the ...

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

RaDonda Vaught and her attorney Peter Strianse listen as verdicts are read at the end of her trial in Nashville, Tenn., on Friday, March 25, 2022. (Nicole Hester/The Tennessean via AP, Pool) NASHVILLE ...