Medications Causing Confusion

Caution!  Look-alike Drugs Ahead! Many Medications Look and Sound Very Similar Many drugs have very similar-sounding names and very often have similar-looking manufacturer packaging or pills.  … [Read more...]

Right Drug, Wrong Dose? What to Do If You’ve Been Given the Wrong Medication

HuffPost Healthy Living Over 770,000 medication mistakes occur every year, contributing to approximately 7,000 deaths in the United States. And when it comes to medications, some mistakes are … [Read more...]

Anatomy of a Prescription

Writing a Prescription and Whisper-Down-the-Lane A prescription is an order that is written by a physician to communicate to a pharmacist or other healthcare provider what medication is to be given … [Read more...]

There Seems to Be a Mistake with My Prescription

What Happens When a Mistake is Made with a Prescription? When patients report medication errors to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) that involve pharmacy dispensing, they are … [Read more...]

Diagnostic Errors: A ‘Moral, Professional and Public Health Imperative’

HuffPost Healthy Living By, Jay Bhatt, M.D. For years, patient safety efforts have focused on mistakes that occur during treatment, from medication errors to post-surgical complications. Since … [Read more...]

Do’s and Don’ts to Protect Yourself From Medication Mistakes

Over 770,000 medication mistakes occur every year, contributing to approximately 7,000 deaths in the United States. When it comes to medications some mistakes are deadlier than others. Medication … [Read more...]

Medication errors: Tips to keep you safe

Medication errors are very common. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that 82 percent of adults are on at least one medication and 29 percent take five or more. With numbers such … [Read more...]

FDA warns: Don’t get these two drugs mixed up

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 … [Read more...]

Wrong drug put in IV bag led to fatal Bend hospital error

St. Charles pharmacy worker in tragic sequence of events By, Wanda Moore A St. Charles Bend pharmacy worker put the wrong medication in an IV bag, leading to the fatal error that killed a … [Read more...]

Hospital medication error kills patient in Oregon

A hospital in Bend, Oregon, says it administered the wrong medication to a patient, causing her death. Loretta Macpherson, 65, died shortly after she was given a paralyzing agent typically used … [Read more...]