by Alan Sackrin | Dec 3, 2013 | Drug Mistakes, Medication Errors
Last Update: 11/15/18 Medication errors, drug mistakes, and instances where medicine has hurt or killed a patient are notoriously under-reported in the United States; sometimes, it is only the suspicion of loved ones and their diligence in discovering what has...
by Alan Sackrin | Nov 26, 2013 | Drug Mistakes, Injury, Medication Errors
Last Update: 01/25/16 The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) published research that everyone should know about which discusses an issue related to medication errors and drug mistakes that those outside the emergency rooms, doctor’s lounges, and hospital...
by Alan Sackrin | Nov 21, 2013 | Drug Mistakes, Injury to Children
Last Update: 01/25/16 Fentanyl is a pain medication that is considered to be 100 times more powerful than morphine. Fentanyl has been around since the early 1960s, but it gained popularity in the United States for its pain-relieving abilities as a skin patch in the...
by Alan Sackrin | Nov 5, 2013 | Drug Mistakes, Injury, Injury to Children, Medication Errors
Last Update: 01/25/16 Back in February 2012, a recall was issued by Johnson & Johnson / McNeil Consumer Healthcare for over half a million (574,000) bottles of infant Tylenol after it was discovered that a problem with the dosing gizmo (something called a...