Recent Posts in Pharmacy Errors Category
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Posted on Apr 6, 2017
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 ...
Posted on Apr 28, 2014
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 ...
Posted on Mar 2, 2013
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 ...
Posted on Feb 28, 2013
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 ...
Posted on Feb 27, 2013
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 ...
Posted on Feb 26, 2013
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 ...
Posted on Sep 1, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Apr 6, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 24, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 21, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 18, 2012
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. ...
Posted on Mar 14, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 11, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 10, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Mar 9, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Feb 25, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Feb 13, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Feb 9, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Jan 13, 2012
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 ...
Posted on Dec 26, 2011
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 ...
Posted on Dec 14, 2011
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 ...
Posted on Nov 17, 2011
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 ...
Posted on Jul 10, 2011
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 ...
Posted on Jun 22, 2011
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 ...
Posted on Jun 14, 2011
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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