Blog Posts in February, 2011
Posted on Feb 24, 2011 By
In the past I have written blogs describing ways to prevent you from becoming a victim of prescription error. The Salt Lake Tribune's Article " Make sure you get the right prescription " is a very ...
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Posted on Feb 15, 2011 By Scott Distasio
A Safeway pharmacy error may cause a pregnant woman to miscarry or have a child with severe birth defects. Mareena Silva, six weeks pregnant, was given Methotrexate, a drug that aborts early stage ...
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Posted on Feb 13, 2011 By
The most common ways that medicines are administered are either by pill, liquid, topical, injection, or inhaler. Each of these ways to administer medicine can result in a wrong dose or wrong drug ...
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Posted on Feb 10, 2011 By
Doctors at the Albany Medical Center did a study of more than 2,000 near miss prescription errors. Crystal Phend wrote an article about this study for MedPage Today, which takes a more in depth look ...
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