Fig. 1: Drug substitution errors can occur even when the drug names do not bear obvious similarities. This hastily written prescription for the diabetic medication Avandia (rosiglitazone) resembles ...

It’s time for Health Canada to do the same for drug RMPs. When Canada’s Food and Drugs Act regulations are amended, transparency for drug RMPs needs to be made mandatory.

What is the incidence of medication errors in the intensive care unit and what are the risk factors? From 49 of the articles retrieved in our search, we identified and categorized potential risk ...

The group recorded a spike in carfentanil – a drug 10,000 times more potent than morphine – in the drug supply in June, the same month front-line workers warned them of increased overdose deaths.

To determine the frequency of adverse drug events and the extent of the harm caused by these events, researchers retrospectively reviewed a study on 14,041 medication administrations. The study ...

Ontario only recently introduced its own drug monitoring database. This new strategy creates the first pan-Canadian plan to deal with prescription abuse.

Hospital medication errors frequent with children Nursing workload, ineffective communication factors in 4 child deaths CBC News · Posted: Jan 17, 2013 5:21 PM PST | Last Updated: January 18, 2013 ...

Monitoring wastewater for viruses works because infected people excrete tiny bits of viral matter; similarly, someone who’s taken a drug expunges biomarkers from their body.