The risks you need to know about mail-order pharmacy services
Convenience (and insurance company profits) comes at the risk of a bigger risk to patients
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Drugs and medications
One of the most common drug errors is giving 10 times the correct dose
Drug error medical malpractice happens with doctors, hospitals, and pharmacies
Three ways you can improve your prescription drug safety
Asking questions gets you key information about medication purposes and risks.
What you should know about the unique risks of using a compounding pharmacy
Patient alleges pharmacy filled prescription at over 50,000 times the dosage prescribed by her doctor
Suburban Houston rehab facility overdoses elderly patient on painkillers, causing aspiration pneumonia and death
One of the first signs of overmedication is often a change in behavior, or altered mental status
Dentist prescriptions for unnecessary opioid painkillers increase addiction risk in teens and young adults
American Dental Association: Dentists prescribe 12% of all opioid pain medications
Three steps you can take to prevent pharmacy errors
Pharmacy gives Houston woman another person's prescription by mistake
Two little-known ways to protect yourself from pharmacy errors
Pharmacist mistakes may happen more often than you think
New anticoagulant blood thinner regulations hit hospitals
Medical malpractice happens when sensitive anticoagulation medications aren't carefully prescribed and monitored within narrow ranges
What to do when you think there’s a hospital cover-up
Did a hospital camouflage the truth after a patient death in Christmas 2017?