Walgreens Drug Addict Pharmacist Liable For $6M Rx Mix Up That Killed IL Customer
A Walgreens pharmacist who admitted to being a drug addict was found responsible for a prescription mix up that led to the death of an elderly Illinois man. A jury awarded the decedent’s family $6.1 million in damages – but ...

Study Reports 585,000 Children Experience Drug Side Effects & Bad Reactions Every Year
A new study, published in the October 2009 issue of Pediatrics, reports that over 585,000 children experience side effects or have bad reactions to widely used prescription medications to treat ear infections, strep throat an ...

Prescription Errors Causing More Serious Injuries & Death
Most people who have prescriptions filled do so with hope – hope that the medication they receive will cure their ailments. Unfortunately, prescription errors are causing an increasing amount of injuries and death among U.S. ...

How to Avoid Prescription Errors
The number of prescription errors in the United States that cause severe injury of death is staggering – nearly four million every year. While overworked pharmacists and untrained technicians providing medications are a majo ...

Utah Supreme Court Ruling May Redefine Pharmacists’ Liability to Patients
A recent ruling by the Utah Supreme Court may redefine pharmacists’ liability to patients when dispensing drugs that have been withdrawn from the market. The case is one of first impression and may have a nationwide effect o ...