Redesigning medication labels for intravenous medication bags could help prevent medication errors from happening in the operating room, according to a study in the Journal of Patient Safety. For the ...
Patients with limited English proficiency at UCHealth may have access to prescription medication labels in their primary language. UCHealth launched a program in February that translates prescription ...
Medications are an important component of health care, but each year their misuse results in over a million adverse drug events that lead to office and emergency room visits as well as ...
As many as half of all Americans with chronic diseases like hypertension and depression don’t take their medications as prescribed. And more than 100,000 people die due to medication nonadherence each ...
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (KRDO) -- There are 26 languages UCHealth can translate for prescriptions filled at their pharmacy. Having access to these translations allows more than 90% of UCHealth ...
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced a significant update to the labeling of all extended-release medications used to treat Attention-Deficit ...
A packaging mix-up has led to the recall of a blood pressure medication and a second medication designed to lower the risk of having a stroke or serious heart problems, the U.S. Food and Drug ...