HEALTH officials have issued an urgent warning over a common anti-diarrhoea medication. Some batches of the drug were discovered to be missing vital side effect information due to a packaging ...

RaDonda Vaught lost her nursing license and was sentenced to three years' probation after administering the wrong medication ...

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The homicide trial of a nurse who accidentally killed a patient by providing the wrong medication is raising questions about the liability of healthcare facilities in similar cases — especially when ...

More people are now purchasing weight-loss medications online, prompting experts to warn about medication errors and a lack ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

Warnings about common medications that can cause impulsive behaviours, such as sex and gambling addictions, are being officially reviewed after BBC News identified an ...

RaDonda Vaught, a former Tennessee nurse convicted of two felonies for a fatal drug error, whose trial became a rallying cry for nurses fearful of the criminalization of medical mistakes, will not be ...

Hospitals must start using smart intravenous (IV) infusion technology to its full potential if they are to prevent dangerous drug errors, University of Manchester researchers have found. Smart pumps, ...