Purpose: The impact of an interactive CD-ROM program on the rate of medication administration errors made by nurses was studied. Methods: This randomized, controlled, nonblinded study was conducted at ...

A female Pharmacist scanning pill box. Barcode technology can reduce medication errors by ensuring that the right drug is administered to the right patient at the right time, in the right dose, using ...

With the Supreme Court just a month away from hearing arguments over access to the abortion medication mifepristone, a new study published on Wednesday in Nature Medicine offers additional evidence ...

Ronald Schneider, B.S.Pharm., M.H.A.; Jonathan Bagby, R.N., M.B.A., M.S.N.; Russ Carlson, R.N., B.S.N., M.H.A. Am J Health Syst Pharm. 2008;65(23):2216-2219. In 1994 ...

Ever rummaged through your medicine cabinet for relief from a throbbing headache, only to find that your go-to painkiller has past its “use by” date? Now you're left with a dilemma: Do you take the ...

Medication abortion patients who receive pills by mail without first getting an ultrasound do just as well as those who are examined and given the drugs in person, new research has found. Medication ...

A widely used abortion medicine is in legal jeopardy, despite decades of data supporting its use. The medicine, called mifepristone, is part of two-drug regimen that can end a pregnancy, and was used ...

The Food and Drug Administration and numerous peer-reviewed academic studies have concluded that medication abortions are “safe and effective” and that serious adverse events from medication abortion ...

The Supreme Court did the right thing Thursday by unanimously ruling against a challenge to the safety of mifepristone, the first of two drugs used in medication abortions. Of course, this wasn’t the ...