Prescription Drug Users More Aware of Potential Risks

Alison De Villiers — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 11:47:52 GMT

In a step in the right direction for prescription drug users, the FDA released a list of questionable drugs for early 2008. Questionable drugs are those with potential safety issues. The list is being released after many prescription drug users and physicians have made complaints that the potential risk factors are not being disclosed. This is the first time the FDA has released such findings, which are based on adverse health events reports made to the FDA.

The list of questionable drugs includes Cymbalta and Oxycontin. The FDA urges that they are not certain if the drugs actually carry the listed risk, as more research needs to be done. Nevertheless, this is a step in the right direction as it allows prescription drug users and physicians to make informed decisions regarding the risks of using a particular prescription drug.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Alison De Villiers

Pharmacy Gives Patient Wrong Medication

Chrissie Cole — Thu, 10 Jan 2008 21:21:41 GMT

NYU Medical Center is being sued by a liver transplant patient for $2 million in damages. The suit alleges the hospital's pharmacy is responsible for a prescription error.

In court documents, the patient, 56, states he was given the wrong medication which caused his hepatitis condition to worsen. The pharmacy gave him HIV medication, when his intended prescription was for hepatitis C medication.

The patient received a liver transplant in 1996, the prescription error was made on January 18, 2006. The patient requested Rebetol and the Pharmacist gave him Reyataz, according to court papers.

The lawsuit says he received a letter two months later, from the hospital pharmacy, saying he had been given medication from a mislabeled bottle.

Originally posted at InjuryBoard by Chrissie Cole

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Prescription Drug Users More Aware of Potential Risks

Pharmacy Gives Patient Wrong Medication