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Blog: Prescription Drug Error
- FDA Warning Letter Goes to NJ Firm
Jun 14, 2018
The Food and Drug Administration is responsible for keeping tabs on a number of different types of dangerous problems and a New Jersey firm recently received an FDA warning letter dated in March. The pharmaceutical company affected by the FDA warning letter is Tris Pharma Inc. Investigators inspected the company’s location in Monmouth Junction, New Jersey and found problems with the manufacturing practices employed by the company. Inspection Discovers Problems with Drug Manufacturing and Management...Read More - Incorrect Dosages Can Prove Lethal
Mar 14, 2018
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that over 70,000 children are rushed to the Patients or parents misread the dosage directions or get occupied by other fine print on the bottle that they miss out on the correct dosage. They are too worried about whether or not the medicine should be taken with water or a meal instead of if it is a teaspoon or a tablespoon. The dosage charts found on...Read More - Avoiding Catastrophic Drug Errors at the Pharmacy
Dec 29, 2015
It’s an errand you’ve probably done countless times before. You get a prescription from the doctor and drive up or walk into a pharmacy to get it filled. In some cases, prescriptions are called directly into the pharmacy by the doctor’s staff; this puts patients one step closer to getting the treatment prescribed to make them feel better. However, regardless of how the order gets to the pharmacy, the process of actually filling the prescription...Read More - Antidepressants Linked to Autism
Dec 18, 2015
The use of antidepressants during pregnancy may increase the risk of the child developing autism, according to a recent study conduct by researchers at the University of Montreal. The study linked antidepressants taken in the later stages of pregnancy, including the second and third trimesters, to children being born with autism. Researchers found that selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs), which include Paxil, Prozac and Zoloft, are the most likely to result in autism. The Journal...Read More - Dangerous Consequences of Generic Drugs
Jan 17, 2014
Are you one of the many people who think generic prescription drugs are just the same as name brands—only cheaper? Most people believe this, so much so that 8 out of 10 prescriptions are filled with generic versions of drugs, according to the FDA (the US Food and Drug Administration). One big problem is that your generic prescription may not really be bioequivalent to its brand name counterpart. Another problem is that labeling on generics...Read More