Drug-name mix-ups hurt patients, getting worse
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Dr. Julius Pham's stomach churned when he saw a critically ill heart patient getting an antibiotic instead of a drug to support his blood pressure -- the kind of mix-up that is increasingly common in the United States, according to a new report.
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NEW YORK  - Older adults with complex medication regimens may make potentially harmful mistakes in taking their drugs as prescribed, a new study shows.
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The prescription drug industry has grown enormously in the past few years, to the tune of an estimated $200 billion every year. Consumers and medical professionals have sharpened their criticism of the industry
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Pushing more of the cost of prescription drugs onto consumers causes patients to cut back, sometimes with adverse health consequences, according to a review of two decades worth of studies published on Tuesday.
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The same brand names are sometimes  used for different drugs in different countries, posing a risk  for people who import cheaper medicines from abroad, a U.S.  group warned on Thursday.
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Some Canadians say they are having problems getting supplies of their prescription drugs and they blame the Internet pharmacy business for it.
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Doctors are missing key information they need to make decisions for cancer patients because some drug companies are not publishing clinical trials.
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Drug companies which fail to disclose the results of clinical trials are harming the treatment of cancer patients, doctors say.
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Across the United States, doctors are struggling to decide which pain relievers to prescribe now that they know that popular drugs like Vioxx and Celebrex pose potentially serious heart risks.
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Medication errors made in hospitals and clinics around the country harm at least 1.5 million Americans every year, according to a study by the National Academy of Sciences.
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New studies are raising questions about whether drugs that have been used by millions of cancer patients might actually be harming them.
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The $500 billion drug industry is stumbling badly in its core business of finding new medicines, while aggressively marketing existing drugs.
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TUESDAY, May 29 (HealthDay News) -- The vast majority of potentially harmful errors in chemotherapy for children with cancer do find their way to these young patients, a new study finds.  And they are more often caused by dispensing or administration mistakes than by prescribing mix-ups, the researchers found.
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Every year, doctors write approximately 65 million prescriptions for drugs not yet approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, the federal agency that regulates prescription drugs.
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A major drugs firm has been named and shamed over "serious breaches" of the industry's code of conduct.
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Competition for painkiller patch may prove to be a major pain for the generics maker.
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The move follows recent studies suggesting that the medications might cause heart attacks.