The frequency of analgesic drug errors in hospitals is nearly three per 1,000 prescriptions, according to a news release by American Pain Society. Researchers at Albany (New York) Medical Center ...

Researchers used a prototype reporting system designed by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine to study causes of medication errors and adverse drug ...

Nurses were more likely to be responsible for medication errors in EDs, according to a study published in the Journal of Emergency Medicine. • Physicians were responsible for 24 percent of errors, ...

Willingness of older people with cancer to participate in cancer clinical trials is not a barrier to accrual No significant financial relationships to disclose. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katherine Anne Moronski was excited about the next phase of her life. After seven years at a therapeutic boarding school in ...

Amid rising diagnoses, a growing number of kids are getting prescriptions for ADHD medications — but the administered doses aren’t always accurate. Medication ...

Oct. 5 (UPI) --Taking blood-thinners and diabetes drugs at higher-than-recommended doses or in error often leads to health complications that bring older adults to ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also ...