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Why Suing Your Hospital Keeps Everyone Safe

For the last 30 years, lawsuits and plaintiffs have gotten a bad rap. Frivolous or ridiculous-sounding lawsuits become punchlines—or worse, become justifications for why the court system ...

Walgreens Sued for Vicodin Induced Death After MD Had Halted RX Two Years Prior

The Guardian Liberty Voice, citing the Sun Sentinel, the Southtown Star and others, has reported that Walgreens is being sued for negligence in a Vicodin overdose death, with evidence from the store ...

Infant Sickened from Wrong Prescription

An infant in the Buffalo, New York area has reportedly been given the wrong prescription which caused health issues. According to reports, a mother discovered that her young son was given medication ...

Pet Dies Due to Pharmacy Error

A dog in the Miamiville, Ohio area has reportedly died due to a pharmacy error. According to reports, the dog was given a prescription bottle that said to give him "two and one-fourth ...

CVS Paying To Resolve Prescription Errors

CVS is reportedly going to pay $650,000 in the New Jersey area in order to resolve prescription medication errors. According to reports, the business will give the money to help a division establish ...

Woman Given Wrong Pills from Pharmacist

A woman in the Seattle, Washington area has reportedly been given the wrong prescription pills from a pharmacist. According to reports, she suffers from multiple sclerosis and had surgery on her hip ...

Robots May Help Eliminate Pharmacy Errors

It is being reported that robotics technologies might be the answer to elimination of many pharmacy errors. According to reports, these robots are now under development at the Medical Center at the ...

Walgreens Accused of Giving Incorrect Medicine

A Walgreens pharmacy in the Alton, Illinois area has reportedly been accused of giving a woman the incorrect medication. According to reports, the pharmacy allegedly filled her prescription for blood ...

Morphine Packaging Error

A morphine product is reportedly being voluntarily recalled due to a packaging error. According to reports, Sandoz is allegedly recalling 57,000 vials of injectable morphine. This is reportedly being ...

Pharmacist has License Suspended

A former senator has reportedly had his pharmacist license suspended in regard to a possible dispensing error. According to reports, he may have been involved in a matter where a young child ingested ...

CVS Issue Under Investigation

Officials are reportedly looking into a matter where a CVS pharmacy had an error where about 13 families received the cancer drug Tamoxifen instead of children’s fluoride prescriptions. ...

Woman Claims Pharmacy Messed Up Prescription

A woman in the Firestone, Colorado area is reportedly claiming that a Walgreen’s pharmacy messed up her prescription. According to reports, the pharmacy didn’t give her enough ...

Pharmacy Error Over Sleeping Pills

A pharmacy reportedly recently made the serious mistake of mislabeling a bottle of sleeping pills as medication for a woman’s baby daughter. According to reports, the woman was picking up three ...

Pharmacy Accused of Giving Life-Threatening Prescriptions

A pharmacy in the Gig Harbor, Washington area is reportedly being accused of giving out life-threatening prescription overdoses to two women. According to reports, the women had the prescriptions for ...

CVS Pharmacy Gave Kids Cancer Drug

A CVS Pharmacy in the New Jersey area has reported been accidentally giving children cancer medication instead of fluoride pills. According to reports, it is believed that as many as 50 families may ...

Another Birth Control Recall

Another birth control recall has taken place this year as Glenmark Generics is recalling its version of oral contraceptives. It is reported that the pills are being recalled because of a packaging ...

Lawsuit Claims Wrong Drug was Given

A medical malpractice lawsuit is reportedly claiming that a Walgreens gave a woman the incorrect drug which caused her death. According to reports, one of the pharmacists allegedly filled her ...

Pharmacy Facing Charges in Three Deaths

A pharmacy is reportedly facing criminal charges in regard to three deaths. According to reports, the pharmacy allegedly shipped a medication used for gout to a medical center. Three patients who ...

FDA Warning of Drug Mix-Up

The FDA is reportedly issuing a warning in regard to Percocet and other opioid products packaged by Novartis as they may have been mixed up. According to reports, one drug may have been packaged as ...

Pharmacy Gives Incorrect Medication

A pharmacy in the Aurora, Colorado area has reportedly given a child the incorrect medication. According to reports, a Walgreens in the area filled her son's prescription with the wrong dosage. He ...

Boy Given Wrong Medicine

A pharmacy in the Aurora, Colorado area has reportedly been accused of giving a boy the wrong medication. According to reports, the boy's medication was filled with an adult dosage instead of one ...

Pharmacy Gave Incorrect Medication

A pharmacy in the Katy, Texas area is reportedly being accused of giving the wrong medication to a woman. According to reports, the woman became ill after she was accidentally given someone else's ...

Error Rate in E-Prescriptions

There is reportedly an 11.7% medication error rate when medication is E-prescribed. According to reports, when medication prescriptions are sent electronically, the chances of mistakes are the same as ...

Pharmacy Apologizes for Dosage Mistake

A pharmacy in the Phoenix, Arizona area is reportedly apologizing for a dosage mistake. According to reports, they refilled a customer's medication with ten times the dosage she was prescribed. The ...

FDA Alerts for Pharmacists

The FDA is alerting pharmacists to the medication errors involving risperidone and ropinirole. According to reports, some patients have been taking the wrong medication and they have ended up ...
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