Testimonials

• When I went to the pharmacy to pick up my prescription the pharmacy put two different medications in the bottle, including one I was not supposed to take...
• A pharmacy gave me the wrong instructions on some medication for my son and he got sick. I needed legal help and even though they were in a different state than where I live they were able to take my case...

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Workers We Help

• Wrong Medication
• Wrong Dosage
• Other Errors
• Kids Rx Errors
• Pharmacy Malpractice
• Walgreens Claims
• CVS Claims
• State pharmacy boards
• Drug Error Prevention
• State Pharmacy Laws

PHARMACY LAW BLOG

Wrong Medication

• Safe Med Program Helps Reduce Drug Error Cases in Older Patients
• Wrong Medication Error Causes Injury after Eye Surgery
• Safeway Pharmacy Gives Wrong Medicine to Expectant Mother

Wrong Dosage

• Cape Cod Mom Saves Baby from Prescription Overdose
• Prescription Phone Orders: A Common Cause of Dosage Errors
• Premature Baby Injured by Wrong Dosage of Morphine

Other Errors

• Hospital’s Follow-Up Program May Reduce Its Number of Harmful Drug Errors
• FDA Implements Bar Codes to Reduce Prescription Drug Errors
• What can you do if a pharmacy breached their duty of care to you?

Kids Rx Errors

• Medical Student Training Helps Reduce Texas Medication Errors for Children
• Joint Commission Encourages Kids to Speak Up about Medication Errors
• Medication Errors in Children: a Problem Bigger than Texas

Pharmacy Malpractice

• FDA Warns Pharmacists to AVOID Drug Interaction Errors
• Hospitals see 60 percent drop in errors when doctors use electronic prescriptions
• Seattle pharmacies investigated for reselling secondhand drugs

Walgreens Claims

• Walgreens Sued Over Medication Error in Michigan

State pharmacy boards

• Rate of Massachusetts prescription mistakes unchanged
• Are you taking contaminated medicine?

Drug Error Prevention

• How a hospital bar code could save your life
• Risperdal $327 million penalty upheld in SC court
• FDA cracking down on safety violations at prescription manufacturing plants

State Pharmacy Laws

• Merck to pay $950 million in criminal and civil fines for Vioxx marketing
• Proposed Pharmacy merger could expose consumers to more dangerous pharmacy practices

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Active Cases

• Pharmacists Warn of Dangerous Drug Interactions2/19/2012
• Three Patients Overdose Due to Medication Errors in Pennsylvania Hospital2/13/2012
• Morphine Use a Common Factor in Hospital Medication Errors, Report Says2/5/2012
• Intravenous Painkillers Often Given in Wrong Doses to Children2/5/2012
• Checking Pictures of Medications Saves Patients from Pharmacy Errors2/4/2012
• Nurses Discover Fewer Hospital Drug Errors with Barcode System1/31/2012

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Learning Center

Wrong Medication

• Medicare to Penalize Hospitals for Preventable Medication Errors
• FDA Warns of Wrong Medication Errors When Taking Durezol and Durasal
• How Nurses Can Defend Patients from Hospital Medication Mistakes

Wrong Dosage

• 5 Things Doctors Can Do to Avoid Dosage Errors in Texas
• How Do Houston Dosage Errors Happen?

Other Errors

• 5 Things All Patients MUST Do To Prevent Harmful Medication Mistakes
• 10 Tips to Avoid Medication Mistakes in the Elderly
• Types of Injuries Caused by Houston Pharmacy Errors

Kids Rx Errors

• How safe is your child from medication
  mix-ups during school hours?
• Infants are More Likely to Suffer Cardiac Medication Errors in Texas
• How to Prevent Medication Errors in Children’s Hospitals

Pharmacy Malpractice

• How Pharmacists Contribute to Drug Interaction Injuries
• Medical error truths your doctor
  may be keeping from you
• Dirty pharmacy secrets – The four pharmacy chains in legal battles over prescription errors.

Walgreens Claims

• Walgreens Pays $31.3M after Pharmacist Mistake Causes Wrongful Death

CVS Claims

• CVS Pharmacy’s Long History of Medication Errors

State pharmacy boards

• HIV AIDS Drugs Tested on Foster Kids
  for Over 20 Years
  
  Part Two: Are drug makers experimenting with your kids?
• Texas Attorney General claims drug companies misled the public on
  safety of Risperdal
• Foster Kids Used as Guinea Pigs by Big Pharma with States’ Permission

Drug Error Prevention

• Oregon Pharmacists refuse to participate in pharmacy error reporting.
• Only one out of seven errors are reported by hospital employees, study finds.
• How Safe is Your Prescription Medication?

General

• Who Is in Charge of Keeping Track of Medication Mistakes in the U.S.?
• Study finds new Metal-on-Metal
  hip implants are worse than older models.
• ¿Que es error farmaceutico y como puedo poner una demanda por un error de farmacia?

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