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Walmart Pharmacy Misfill—Teenager’s Acne Prescription Wrongly Filled with Viagra

In recent news that our Washington D.C. Pharmacy Misfill Attorneys have been following, a young woman in Florida recently experienced a serious medication error when she filled her prescription for doxycycline, a medication for acne, and received a bottle of Viagra instead. According the news story, after picking up her…

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Hospitals Fined by CDPH for Alleged Medication Mistakes

In recent article that our Maryland-based Medical Mistake Attorneys have been following, The California Department of Public Health (CDPH) has fined 13 hospitals in California $650,000 for 16 medical mistakes that have caused serious patient injury, harm, or even wrongful death in 2008 and 2009. In one hospital pharmacy error…

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Jury Orders Rite Aid to Pay $2.5 Million for Pharmacy Misfill

As Maryland Pharmacy Misfill Attorneys, we have been following the recent verdict in which $2.5 million in damages were awarded to a Montgomery, Alabama woman and her husband, who claimed to be victims of a Rite Aid Pharmacy prescription misfill. According to the lawsuit filed in 2008, Reva Tosh received…

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Lawsuit Accuses Hospital of Medication Mistake and Wrongful Death

In a recent lawsuit that our Maryland Pharmacy Mistake Lawyers have been following, a hospital is being sued for dispensing an overdose of pain medicine to a 68-year old woman, which allegedly led to her wrongful death. Mable Mosley was taken to the Brandon Regional Hospital last year complaining of…

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FDA Pressures Johnson & Johnson for Broad Recall of OTC Drugs

Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has recently recalled certain lots of Tylenol, Rolaids, Benadryl and Motrin, after consulting with the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA). McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the J&J subsidiary that sells the drugs, is voluntarily recalling the lots of the Over-The-Counter (OTC) products, in an effort to maintain…

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Dangerous Error-Prone Prescription Abbreviations

As Maryland Pharmacy Error Attorneys, we have been following a recent report by The Institute for Safe Medication Practices (ISMP) about the danger of error-prone abbreviations and when it comes to writing a prescription—the fact that some shortcuts don’t save time, and can result in pharmacy error or injury. According…

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Local Pharmacy Mistake Kills 21 Polo Horses

In a widely publicized pharmacy error from earlier this year that our Maryland Pharmacy Error Injury Lawyers followed, 21 elite horses tragically died after a pharmacy incorrectly prepared the medication given to the horses. According to reports, 21 of the 25 horses of the Venezuelan polo team were allegedly given…

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Steps for Preventing Prescription Errors in Pharmacies

In a related blog from yesterday, our Maryland Pharmacy Misfill Lawyers discussed a recent article from USA Today, where the step-by-step process of how a prescription is filled was followed in two pharmacies—to uncover how pharmacy mistakes are taking place, and how to prevent them in the future. The article…

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Understanding the Prescription Drug’s Path through a Pharmacy can Reduce Error

In a recent study that our Maryland Pharmacy Error Attorneys have been following, USA Today investigated every step of a prescription’s path in a pharmacy—to uncover the potential for medication mistakes with each step of the filling process, that can lead to patient injury or wrongful death. In the research,…

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Pharmacy Mistake Leads to Wrongful Death—Rite Aid Faces Lawsuit

Our Maryland Pharmacy Error Injury Lawyers have been following the recent case filed last week on behalf of John Sheridan, a man who died after being prescribed the wrong dosage of a cancer medication. According to the suit, Sheridan was prescribed Temodar, a powerful drug for brain tumors that was…

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