Category: Medications - Page 2

When to Call 911 vs. Contact Your Doctor About Medication Reactions

When to Call 911 vs. Contact Your Doctor About Medication Reactions

Know when a medication reaction is a minor side effect or a life-threatening emergency. Learn the key symptoms that require calling 911 immediately-and when you can wait to contact your doctor.

How to File a Direct Complaint with the FDA as a Patient

How to File a Direct Complaint with the FDA as a Patient

Learn how to file a direct complaint with the FDA about adverse reactions, faulty devices, or medication failures. Your report helps protect others and improves drug safety.

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How to Prevent Medication Errors

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How to Prevent Medication Errors

Using two patient identifiers in the pharmacy is a critical safety practice to prevent medication errors. Learn how name and date of birth checks, barcode scanning, and EMPI systems reduce dispensing mistakes and save lives.

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How to Prevent Medication Errors

Using Two Patient Identifiers in the Pharmacy for Safety: How to Prevent Medication Errors

Using two patient identifiers in the pharmacy prevents deadly medication errors by ensuring the right person gets the right drug. Learn how this simple rule saves lives-and why technology makes it work.

First Generic vs Authorized Generic: How Timing of Market Entry Changes Everything

First Generic vs Authorized Generic: How Timing of Market Entry Changes Everything

First generics and authorized generics may look the same, but their market entry timing creates vastly different outcomes for prices, competition, and patient access. Here’s how brand companies use authorized generics to undercut the first generic’s exclusivity.

Illegible Handwriting on Prescriptions: Why E-Prescribing Is the Only Real Solution for Patient Safety

Illegible Handwriting on Prescriptions: Why E-Prescribing Is the Only Real Solution for Patient Safety

Illegible handwriting on prescriptions causes thousands of preventable deaths each year. E-prescribing has slashed these errors by 97%, making it the only proven solution to protect patient safety. Here's how it works-and why paper prescriptions must end.

How to Communicate with Multiple Healthcare Providers About Your Medications

How to Communicate with Multiple Healthcare Providers About Your Medications

Learn how to prevent dangerous drug interactions by communicating clearly with multiple healthcare providers. Get practical steps to organize your meds, talk to doctors and pharmacists, and stay safe.

SSRIs and Anticoagulants: What You Need to Know About the Bleeding Risk

SSRIs and Anticoagulants: What You Need to Know About the Bleeding Risk

Combining SSRIs with anticoagulants raises bleeding risk by 33%, especially in the first 30 days. Learn why platelet effects-not blood thinning-are to blame, which drugs carry the most risk, and how to stay safe.

Prior Authorization for NTI Drugs: When Insurers Require Brand-Name Medications

Prior Authorization for NTI Drugs: When Insurers Require Brand-Name Medications

NTI drugs like levothyroxine and phenytoin require strict dosing consistency. Yet many insurers still force patients through prior authorization for brand-name versions, risking health crises. Learn why this happens and what you can do.

Manufacturing of Authorized Generics: Who Actually Makes Them

Manufacturing of Authorized Generics: Who Actually Makes Them

Authorized generics are made by the original brand drug companies themselves - same factory, same formula, same quality. Learn who makes them, why they exist, and how they differ from regular generics.