Archive for July 2005

6 News has uncovered yet another local claim of the wrong drug handed out at a local CVS Pharmacy. On Tuesday , Tammy Lowery said the pharmacy gave her 5-year-old son, Cody, methadone instead of Ritalin. Because it was the first time he had been prescribed Ritalin, she didn't know it was the wrong drug…

Cardinal Health Inc., Dublin, Ohio, will market and distribute the "talking" prescription bottles of Wizzard Software Corp., Pittsburgh. Terms of the one-year contract were not disclosed. July 14, 2005 Read the full story at mobilehealthdata.com.

Increasing medication needs, a shortage of pharmacists and English deficiencies among drug store technicians are creating a surge in dangerous prescription errors that has officials demanding action. By Jessica Heslam July 14, 2005 Read the full story at bostonherald.com.

Beulah Hill only takes three prescriptions a day, but she fears that in the coming years doctors will prescribe more and more medications and her costs will rise. By Erin Julius July 13, 2005 Read the full story at newsleader.com.

Counterfeit drugs are flooding the international marketplace, but Nigeria's Dr Dora Akunyili fights day and night to stop it. Dora is angry. Angry that India's government have not sent a representative to the global forum in Paris. Angry because her diabetic sister died from what she is convinced were fake insulin and fake antibiotics. Olenka…

BRUSSELS, July 12 (Reuters) – People who peddle counterfeit fake drugs, food and other goods that threaten health, should be locked up for at least four years or be fined up to 300,000 euros ($365,000), the European Commission proposed on Tuesday. By Huw Jones July 12, 2005 Read the full story at alertnet.org.