A new study by the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority found that the primary reason for medication errors is administrative error. The study analyzed 800 instances ...

A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also found guilty of gross ...

Our 21-year-old daughter with a disability was overdosed with her own medication within two days of entering a New Jersey group home. She died in an emergency room on June 24, 2024, after she was ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – A former Tennessee nurse is guilty of criminally negligent homicide in the death of a patient who was accidentally given the wrong medication, a jury found Friday. She was also ...

Illegible doctor handwriting on prescriptions poses a major risk in patient care, often resulting in medication errors with ...

Unfortunately, nursing home abuse occurs more frequently than you might think, even in the Puget Sound region. While many forms of abuse leave physical marks (like a scratch or bruise), some forms of ...

A nurse in a south Dublin care home failed to administer critical medication to a resident and inaccurately recorded the time of death of another, a fitness-to-practise hearing has heard. The Nursing ...

A qualitative case series research study sponsored by the American College of Lifestyle Medicine and published in Clinical Diabetes provides the first published examples of protocols to help guide ...

A Las Vegas woman who dreamed of having a big family since her childhood was mistakenly given an abortion pill instead of IVF hormones by a CVS pharmacy, ending her pregnancy, and she said all she got ...