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Open prescription bag before you leave the pharmacy |
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It should never happen, but it's not unheard of for another patient's medication to somehow slip into your bag before you pick it up at the pharmacy. Bagging errors can happen when more than one pa
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Medication patch advisory |
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FDA issued a public health advisory last week regarding medication patches worn during an MRI procedure. MRI stands for “magnetic resonance imaging,” which is a test used in radiology to examine th
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Knowing the difference between a drug allergy and a side effect |
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Many people have experienced an unpleasant side effect to a medication, such as an upset stomach, diarrhea, or excessive sleepiness. Medication side effects are pretty common and can be expected, e
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Boxed Warning Added to Metoclopramide Labeling |
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Our safety partner, iGuard.org, recently posted an FDA alert for patients taking metoclopramide, a drug used for certain gastrointestinal problems.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration
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New Safety Warning for Zonisamide/Zonegran |
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Our safety partner, iGuard.org, recently posted an FDA alert for patients taking aonisamide (Zonegran).
The FDA has announced that zonisamide a treatment for seizures, can cause metaboli
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Computer-generated prescriptions require patient's check |
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We heard recently about an experience a family had at their doctor’s office that had to do with a computer-generated prescription. It provided learning for all of us, including healthcare consumers
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Preventing prescription mix-ups between Prozac and Prilosec |
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One of the medication errors reported recently to the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) through this website involved a patient who dropped off her doctor’s prescription for Prilosec (
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