Three ways you can improve your prescription drug safety
Asking questions gets you key information about medication purposes and risks.
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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
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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
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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
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Three steps you can take to prevent pharmacy errors
Pharmacy gives Houston woman another person's prescription by mistake
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Two little-known ways to protect yourself from pharmacy errors
Pharmacist mistakes may happen more often than you think
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New anticoagulant blood thinner regulations hit hospitals
Medical malpractice happens when sensitive anticoagulation medications aren't carefully prescribed and monitored within narrow ranges
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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?
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Opioid narcotic pain medication medical malpractice
Since 2000, over 300,000 Americans have died from opioid overdoses
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Hospital, physician, and nursing medication error malpractice
Some healthcare providers routinely do a poor job of medication reconciliation, putting patients at risk
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