Medication Errors

New Mexico residents might be interested to learn that a deadly meningitis outbreak in 2012 was linked to the unsterile conditions in a Massachusetts pharmacy. On Dec. 17, federal prosecutors filed criminal charges against 14 former owners and workers from the New...

Residents of New Mexico may have heard a news report about a recent incident that occurred at an Oregon hospital. According to reports, a female patient died after the hospital staff allegedly gave her the wrong medication. According to the report, a 65-year-old Bend...

Many New Mexico residents are allergic to various classes of drugs. A person may not have an allergic reaction to a drug the first time it is ingested. However, for people who will become allergic to the medication, their bodies react to the medication by producing...

Medical patients in New Mexico may now be more likely to receive the correct medications without depending entirely on the human factor. New technology has been developed in a computerized system that could be helpful in reducing errors that cause potential harm. The...

Recent research suggests that nearly half of all heart patients in the United States are taking their medicine incorrectly or do not understand the directions that were given to them regarding how to take their medication. The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and...

A recent review of previous studies indicates that many children have been taking incorrect dosages, or have not been taking their prescriptions at all, due to mistakes made throughout the chain from filling out the prescriptions to administering patients'...

Residents of New Mexico may be interested in a recent article in U.S. News that discussed how consumers can deal with prescription mistakes at pharmacies. Pharmacists are human too, and while they are highly trained, they sometimes make mistakes in filling...

Medication errors can cause serious illnesses and injuries. There are many things that can go wrong to result in a dangerous medication error in New Mexico hospitals. A nurse that is administering a medication might not be able to properly make out a doctor's...

Continuing our theme from our last post about medication errors, it appears that a new tactic for fighting serious and possibly fatal prescription mistakes could save thousands of lives -- if only it were widely used. Unlike the medication error that we talked about...

Imagine for a moment that you go into the doctor's office with acute bronchitis -- a very specific set of circumstances, mind you, but stick with us on this one. Your doctor checks on you and concludes that you do indeed have acute bronchitis, and that the way to...