The risks of writing informal prescriptions When clinicians write informal prescriptions, their supervising physicians may also suffer the consequences. As medical professionals, we often find ...

Demand for chloroquine and hydroxychloroquine surged over the past several days as President Donald Trump promoted them as possible treatments for the coronavirus. Pharmacists told ProPublica that ...

Background: The frequency of drug prescription errors is high. Excluding errors in decision making, the remaining are mainly due to order ambiguity, non standard nomenclature and writing illegibility.

You walk out of a doctor's clinic clutching a white sheet of paper that looks like a secret code. The pharmacist squints, nods like a detective who's cracked the Da Vinci code, and hands you a bag ...

The study, a point prevalence survey, took place between 26-30 May 2008 in a North-Eastern University hospital. All 41 inpatient Units were involved, except for ophthalmology and dermatology since ...