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...ensure that pharmacies provide appropriate medications and dosages. "Thousands of people are dying, and we've been talking about this problem for ages," says Glen Tullman, CEO of Allscripts, a Chicago-based health care technology company, that initiated the project. "This is crazy. We have the technology today to prevent these errors, so why aren't we doing...
...that there are more than 17,000 pharmaceutical brands and generics available, a spoken request for Celebrex, for instance, can be mistaken for Celexa, or a notation requesting 150 milligrams of a drug might be read as 1500. In electronic systems, drugs and dosages are selected from menus to prevent input errors, and pharmacists don't need to re-enter information...
...support the law to its fullest extent,” says Justin T. Martin, director of public information and communications for the Cambridge Public Schools. “We find that it’s another tool to help us prevent the distribution of narcotics of any kind or any illegal substance in the vicinity of school children...
...half-year-old son. But at the same time, I don’t want people smoking pot at DeWolfe with my two-and-half-year-old son playing right there,” she says. “I think the intent of the law is to prevent dealers from distributing to elementary and middle school....It’s interesting that pre-school counts...
...Ashley's. There's no way to know if Ashley will ever be able to sit up or control a wheelchair with her head as Philip eventually could. "They flew to the worst-case scenarios," she says--worrying about what might happen to Ashley and intervening drastically to prevent it. Removing her uterus will not protect her from abuse, only from pregnancy. Was there really no better...