Medication mistakes cause 1.5 million preventable injuries per year, according to the June/July 2012 issue of AARP the Magazine. An Auburn University study of 100 area pharmacies found errors in ...

When a patient is given the wrong medication or the wrong dosage, many things can go awry, depending on the drug. Consider Digoxin, which is often prescribed for congestive heart ...

Researchers spent four years studying accidental awareness during general anesthesia in order to learn when and how it happens, according to The Atlantic last Saturday.As for when, they found that ...

A man has been awarded $1.5 million in damages after his surgeon used the wrong drug and blinded him during cataract removal surgery, Outpatient Surgery Magazine recently reported. The surgeon ...