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The Food and Drug Administration said Thursday that some doctors and pharmacies are getting confused by the similar names of an antidepressant and a blood-thinning medicine.
The FDA says it’s not aware of any patients who took the wrong drug, but the agency says it has received 50 reports of medication errors, including at least 12 cases where doctors prescribed the
wrong drug or pharmacies dispensed the wrong one. The two medications are Brintellix, an antidepressant, and Brilinta, a blood-thinning medication used to prevent death after a heart attack or severe chest pain or to prevent a second heart attack.
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