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Pharmacist Malpractice
Drug Database Concerns
Jul 28, 2006
| www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv
Over one-million people a year are harmed by medication errors, and the medical community is scrambling to find a solution. Now a UVa doctor believes...
CVS/Pharmacy Agrees to Hire Safety Group to Oversee Its Medicine Dispensing Practices after Numerous Prescription Errors
Feb 11, 2006
| Newsinferno News Staff
Following complaints of 80 prescription errors in 2005, CVS/Pharmacy, the largest drug chain in Massachusetts, has agreed to be overseen by a...
CVS Probe Finds Prescription Errors
Feb 9, 2006
| AP
A state investigation of CVS pharmacies confirmed dozens of prescription errors since 2002, including one that sent a 4-year-old girl to the...
Man Says CVS Gave Daughter Wrong Drug
Jan 1, 2006
A Raynham, Mass., family is warning people to closely check their prescriptions after a 5-year-old girl received an adult dose of Valium by...
Prescription Mix-Ups Common
Dec 18, 2005
| www.wusatv9.com
Stop and check those pills and read the label before you leave the pharmacy. Mistakes with medication may happen more often than you think.In fact,...
Prescription error blamed for Everett teen's illness
Dec 16, 2005
| Boston Herald
In yet another dangerous pharmacy blunder, an Everett teen wound up in a hospital after popping high blood pressure medicine mistakenly put into his...
Mixing Up Drugs with Similar Names Can Cause Potentially Deadly Medication Errors
Nov 28, 2005
| www.newsinferno.com
As the number of prescription and over-the-counter drugs has steadily increased, so have the medical problems associated with dangerous side-effects...
Woman Sues Rite Aid, Pharmacist Over Prescription Mix-Up
Oct 29, 2005
| AP
A 51-year-old woman has sued Rite Aid Corp. and one of its pharmacists, saying she got sick and addicted when her prescription for bladder medication...
AstraZeneca Reports TOPROL-XL Medication Errors
Sep 28, 2005
| www.newsinferno.com
Users of the beta blocker TOPROL-XL, taken for the treatment of conditions such as hypertension and angina pectoris, need to insure that they are...
FDA warns of risk from mixed-up prescriptions
Sep 28, 2005
| AP
Doctors and pharmacists have been warned that mix-ups in prescriptions of three drugs with similar names but vastly different effects have led to...
