RaDonda Vaught lost her nursing license and was sentenced to three years' probation after administering the wrong medication ...

HEALTH officials have issued an urgent warning over a common anti-diarrhoea medication. Some batches of the drug were discovered to be missing vital side effect information due to a packaging ...

The homicide trial of a nurse who accidentally killed a patient by providing the wrong medication is raising questions about the liability of healthcare facilities in similar cases — especially when ...

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 ...

Pennsylvania hospitals submitted 519 medication error reports to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority from June 2004-September 2010. The most common types of ...

More people are now purchasing weight-loss medications online, prompting experts to warn about medication errors and a lack ...

Senior patient talks about autoinjector with her doctor. Glatiramer acetate injection is indicated for the treatment of relapsing forms of multiple sclerosis. The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) ...

Warnings about common medications that can cause impulsive behaviours, such as sex and gambling addictions, are being officially reviewed after BBC News identified an ...

Every year, up to 9,000 people die in the US as a result of a prescription medication error. That figure doesn’t include the hundreds of thousands of patients who ...

Hospitals must start using smart intravenous (IV) infusion technology to its full potential if they are to prevent dangerous drug errors, University of Manchester researchers have found. Smart pumps, ...