As our Baltimore County pharmacy error attorneys discussed in a recent blog, according to a recent study by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), medical errors are a leading cause of personal injury and death in this country, and rates for possible adverse drug events were three times…
In recent news that our Baltimore pharmacy error attorneys have been following, a nine-year-old child in Las Vegas reportedly received an accidental pharmacy misfill at a local CVS Pharmacy, after his hyperactivity medication was filled with methadone, a drug frequently used to treat withdrawal and dependence problems with people who…
After two children died from medication errors at Seattle Children’s Hospital over a period of 18 months, as our Baltimore, Maryland medication error injury lawyers recently discussed in a blog, the staff of the hospital held a special ‘Zero Errors Initiative’ Patient Safety Day on Saturday, to prevent tragic medication…
In a blog from earlier this year, our Washington D.C. pharmacy error injury attorneys discussed Dennis Quaid’s high profile lawsuits against Baxter Heathcare Corporation, that were filed after his newborn twins were given a near-fatal overdose of Heparin, a blood thinner. The medication error was allegedly due to a mistake…
A recent news article reports that medication errors are among the most common mistakes made by healthcare practitioners—and also among the most under reported. In a tragic medication error from last year, a child at Seattle Children’s Hospital died from a medication error allegedly involving Calcium chloride. The hospital reported…
In recent pharmacy injury news, that our Baltimore, Maryland attorneys at Lebowitz and Mzhen Personal Injury Lawyers have been interested in, the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) recently held a nationwide prescription drug “take-back” day. The event was designed to curb health hazards and medication errors that can occur when…
In a recent news story that our Baltimore, Maryland pharmacy error injury attorneys have been following, a two-year-old child was rushed to the hospital, after a prescription error was made at a Jersey City Walgreen’s pharmacy, while dispensing the boy’s allergy medication prescription. According to the Jersey Journal, the father…
Recently our attorneys at Lebowitz and Mzhen Personal Injury Lawyers discussed the topic of medication mistakes with children in a blog, after actor Dennis Quaid filed another lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare Corporation, after his twins were given a near fatal dose of medication in the hospital. Sadly, in another children’s…
In recent news that our Washington D.C. Medication Error Attorneys have been following, Hollywood actor Dennis Quaid has filed another lawsuit against Baxter Healthcare, Corporation after his newborn twins were given a near-fatal overdose of Baxter’s medication in a Los Angeles hospital. In the high profile incident, Quaid’s newborn twins…
In a recent blog, our Washington D.C. Pharmacy Error Attorneys discussed the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) push for a broad recall of over-the-counter (OTC) products by Johnson & Johnson (J&J) in January—in an effort to maintain the health and safety of the consumer and to prevent OTC medication…