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The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) reports that serious dosing errors continue to occur when heparin is administered to neonates. ISMP cites an incident in Texas where as many as 17 infants in a neonatal intensive care unit received ...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
A recent report by the Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) notes that some health professionals and patients may not realize that Jantoven is a brand name for the drug warfarin. That could result in inadvertently prescribing and dispensin...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices warns that storing insulin vials inside their cardboard cartons after the packages have been opened can be a medical emergency waiting to happen. If the vial is accidentally returned to the wrong carton af...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) is warning again about the possibility of mix-ups between ephedrine and epinephrine. Not only do the names of these drugs look and sound similar, but since they're both used as vasopressors and vaso...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
Ucyclyd Pharma is notifying healthcare professionals that particulate matter has been detected in Ammonul Injection. Ammonul is used as an adjunct in treating hyperammonemia in certain patients with urea cycle disorders.
The company says that the...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
OSI Pharmaceuticals and Genentech are alerting healthcare professionals about hepatic failure and hepatorenal syndrome with the use of Tarceva (erlotinib), particularly in patient with baseline hepatic impairment. Tarceva is approved to treat certai...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
Medtronic has alerted healthcare professionals about the potential for misconnections between certain sutureless intrathecal catheters and the implanted infusion pumps to which they're attached. The four affected products are:
? INDURA 1P Intrath...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
Covidien and Mallinckrodt, the manufacturers of Phosphocol P 32, have informed healthcare professionals that this drug may increase the risk of leukemia in certain situations. Phosphocol P 32 is used to treat peritoneal or pleural effusions in patie...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
A recent FDA analysis provides new evidence that using statins does not increase the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), a neurodegenerative disease also known "Lou Gehrig's Disease." Cholesterol-lowering statins such as Lipitor (atorvastat...
Written by Food and Drug Adminstration (FDA): Patient Safety News · Filed Under FDA: News/Recalls
On the reduction of VAT to 15%, as announced in the Chancellor's Pre-budget Report, Raj Nutan, Head of Business Development at the National Pharmacy Association, said: "HMRC has confirmed that there is no legal requirement for pharmacies to pass on these savings, as pricing decisions to consumers are made by individual businesses - so we will not instruct our members to do so. However, we would advise pharmacists to consider the image that they are portraying.
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