A New Brunswick woman says a Shoppers Drug Mart pharmacy error left her taking blood pressure medication instead of an ...

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One person was assaulted by an employee and another has died after a medication mistake at a state institution for people with developmental disabilities in south Jersey. The two separate incidents at ...

A former Tennessee nurse who was convicted of homicide last year after a medication error killed a patient said that the state Board of Nursing acted improperly when ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Jane Ryde says her husband would have been "horrified" by his impulsive behaviour, caused by his Parkinson's medication [BBC] ...

An assisted living center for people with dementia has been fined $6,000 for a serious medication error that resulted in a resident’s hospitalization. State ...

WASHINGTON – Medication mistakes injure well over 1.5 million Americans every year, a toll too often unrecognized and unfought, says a sobering call to action.At least a quarter of the errors are ...

Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...

Several factors, including case type and provider experience, influence whether anesthesiologists report medication errors, according to a study published in the Canadian Journal of Anesthesia.

Incarcerated people in the U.S. face medication error rates that are three times higher than those in community settings, yet the scale of harm remains almost ...

Medication errors reported by registered nurses occur more frequently in the medical-surgical and intensive care units than any other hospital units, according to a ...

The last element of the 5 Rs -- right time -- has often been governed by the "30-minute medication rule." For as long as many nurses can remember, every hospital, unit, and nurse has passed ...