A time-and-motion study in a Chinese hospital recorded 2,091 interruptions during medication administration, revealing that ...

A cross-sectional study of 450 healthcare professionals in Kwara State, Nigeria, finds that poor handwriting, communication ...

Federal health officials are moving ahead with plans to broaden access to a class of unproven injectable drugs called ...

Most people leave the doctor’s office with a new prescription in hand and a head full of partially absorbed information. The ...

Medication errors can happen when medicines are prescribed, dispensed, given or monitored. Learn common mistakes and simple ways to prevent them.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Secretary of the State Stephanie Thomas in the State Office Building on Monday, announcing that nearly 316,000 cast ballots during ...

Two Nashville hospitals may be terminated from the Medicare program after a medication error injured four people, paralyzing one, on Aug. 14. The Centers for Medicare ...

The Tennessee Bureau of Investigation has opened its own investigation into the medication error at a Nashville hospital that left four surgery patients seriously ...

The Tennesee Department of Health and Human Services found that numerous oversight failures contributed to the Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown medication mix-up in Nashville ...

A report challenges Ascension's explanation of the pharmacy error that paralyzed a patient, citing failures in safety controls.

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Tennessee Health Facilities Commission released an 80-page report detailing the investigation into the series of errors at Ascension Saint Thomas Midtown that resulted in ...

A medication error that paralyzed one orthopedic surgery patient at Ascension Saint Thomas Hospital in Nashville Aug. 14 also significantly affected three other ...