Medications
These Drugs Can Cause Memory Loss
Can a heartburn drug cause cognitive problems? By Matthew Solan, Harvard Men’s Health Watch. POSTED MARCH 21, 2016, 9:30 AM , UPDATED JUNE 23, 2020. A new study has shed light on one of the...
COVID Related Medication Errors Reported
By Maia Anderson, Becker’s Hospital Review, May 14, 2020. The Institute for Safe Medication Practices, a nonprofit watchdog for prescription drug safety, on May 14 published a list of medication errors reported by hospitals related… Read More
6 Recent Drug, Device Recalls
By Maia Anderson, Becker’s Hospital Review, Jun 15, 2020. Medical device and drug recalls, whether voluntary or mandated by the FDA, ensure patient safety. Here are six reported to the FDA in the last month:… Read More
Amid Pandemic, FDA Seizes Cheaper Drugs From Canada
By Phil Galewitz, KHN, Apr 20, 2020. The Food and Drug Administration in the past month has stepped up seizures of prescription drugs being sent to American customers from pharmacies in Canada and other countries,… Read More
Essential Drug Supplies for Virus Patients Are Running Low
By Knvul Sheikh, The New York Times, Apr 02, 2020. Across the country, as hospitals confront a harrowing surge in coronavirus cases, they are also beginning to report shortages of critical medications — especially those… Read More
FDA Warns of Defective EpiPen Dangers
By Robert Preidt, U.S. News, Mar 25, 2020. Certain types of EpiPens and their generic counterparts may fail or delay injection of lifesaving epinephrine for severe allergic reactions, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns…. Read More
Beware Safety Risks Posed by ‘Off-Label’ Drug Use
Study raises concerns about using meds to treat conditions for which they weren’t approved By Karen Pallarito, HealthDay News, Nov. 2, 2015. “Off-label” drug use puts patients at risk for serious side effects, especially when scientific… Read More
Effort To Control Opioids In An ER Leaves Some Sickle Cell Patients In Pain
By Sam Whitehead, NPR Shots, Jan 02, 2020. India Hardy has lived with pain since she was a toddler — from dull persistent aches to acute flare-ups that interrupt the flow of her normal life…. Read More
Drug Shortages Putting Patients At Risk
By Julie Appleby, The Washington Post, September 24, 2019 Medical treatment has knocked down tumors in 6-year-old Easton Daniels’s brain, but the drug that helped him also wiped out his immune system. To bolster his… Read More