While pharmacy errors happen across the country, only Nova Scotia has made tracking tools mandatory. Saskatchewan is running a pilot project involving a limited number of pharmacies.

How often do serious pharmacy errors happen? Actually, nobody knows. But here are some of the most common reasons for medicine mistakes, and what you can do to avoid them.

Stores that a decade ago might have had two pharmacists and six pharmacy technicians filling an average of 500 prescriptions a day now may have half the staff and an even higher prescription ...

Carmen Catizone, executive director of the National Association of Boards of Pharmacy, says studies have shown that 1 in 10 prescriptions has an error, although most of those errors are not serious.

In addition to Dr. Barker, the SafetyNET-Rx team includes several other individuals with Dal connections: PhD alum Andrea Bishop, Pharmacy student Kellie Duggan and former faculty member Neil ...

A two-month-old baby has died after allegedly being given an adult dose of medication by a pharmacy, prompting a wave of ...

An intern pharmacist, a trainee technician and a registered pharmacist all looked at the prescription.

PCA Pharmacy plans to add ATP-Rx and InspectRx in its Grand Rapids, MI location in spring 2014, and will continue to add pouch packaging solutions to additional facilities. "Implementing a new ...

A CBC News/Marketplace investigation reveals that nobody knows. While close to 38,000 pharmacists dispense more than half a billion prescriptions in Canada every year, there is no national tracking ...