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Wrong Prescriptions More Common Than Most Realize

23 hours ago ago from The Salt Lake City 10 - Top Ten Lists of the Best Restaurants, Businesses, Services, and Everything Else You Can Imagine in Salt Lake City, UT

Prescribing medication is something that all doctors (and some other medical professionals) do each and every day, and more often than not, prescribed medicine is a great help to the patient's recovery and well-being. However, sometimes the wrong medication is prescribed due to a wrong diagnosis made by the doctor. Other times, the prescription may simply be written incorrectly, and a wrong number indicating dosage or number of pills ...

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Improving Medication Safety

15 hours ago ago from Hospital

Improving Medication The Institute of Medicine's July 2006 report showed that medication errors harm an estimated 1.5 million people in the United States each year, costing nearly $3.5 billion in unnecessary hospital costs. The statistics are staggering each hospital patient may be victim to one medication error each day. A wrong prescription or misunderstanding can lead to patients taking a medication that is not necessary, and ...

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India: Isolation wards full, hospitals say no to H1N1 patients

22 hours ago ago from Pandemic Information News

Isolation wards full, hospitals say no to H1N1 patients Anshu Seth Tribune News Service Ludhiana, December 17 Swine flu is spreading its tentacles in Punjab fast. With already 16 deaths and 116 positive cases reported from different parts, alarm bells have gone ringing . Things have come to such a pass that isolation wards of Ludhiana ’s multi-speciality hospitals, catering to urban as well as rural populace of the Malwa and Doaba ...

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The cultural sensitivity of the British police kills woman Twice, in the weeks before she was murdered by her father, Tulay Goren told the police that she feared for her life. And twice she was ignored. Mehmet Goren, who was convicted of murder yesterday, killed his 15-year-old daughter because she had fallen in love with an “unsuitable” older man. To Mehmet, the affair made her a “worthless commodity” who could not be married off for a ...

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Partnership in CA gives health care to everyone

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Partnership in CA gives health care to everyone VALLEJO, Calif. (AP) -- Dozens of patients file through Sutter Solano Medical Center's emergency room every day in this recession-wracked Northern California city, often without insurance, cash or legal immigration status. They all get health care, no questions asked. Medical providers in Vallejo teamed up to establish the program, generating community opposition because illegal immigrants ...

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