Pregnant women in China know their medicines but still need counseling, survey finds
A cross-sectional survey of nearly 500 pregnant and postpartum women in Taiyuan, China found generally favorable medication knowledge and behavior ...
Tag: medication safety
Nurses Face an Interruption Every Six Minutes While Giving Medication, Landmark Chinese Hospital Study Reveals
A time-and-motion study in a Chinese hospital recorded 2,091 interruptions during medication administration, revealing that nurses immediately respond to 85.7% ...
Pharmacists Could Slash Risky Medications in Older Adults—But Saudi Arabia Isn’t Ready Yet
A narrative review finds Saudi Arabia lacks validated tools, national guidelines, and pharmacist authority for deprescribing potentially inappropriate medications in ...
Hidden medication dangers uncovered in older patients with rare diseases
A Bulgarian study combining systematic review with real-world analysis reveals that drug-related problems in geriatric patients with rare diseases are ...
Hospital EHR alert system cuts dangerous drug–herb interactions in Thai study
Herbal medicines are no longer fringe therapy. Across hospitals in Southeast Asia, patients routinely combine conventional prescription drugs with herbal ...
Handwriting, Workload and Missing Digital Safeguards: Nigerian Clinicians Map the Roots of Medication Errors
A cross-sectional study of 450 healthcare professionals in Kwara State, Nigeria, finds that poor handwriting, communication gaps, and heavy workloads ...
Why Young Adults Suddenly Stockpile Unused Pills: Huge Study Reveals Age-Specific Drug Risks
A five-year analysis of more than 36,000 Japanese outpatients shows that the risk factors driving leftover medications shift dramatically with ...
AI Learns to Read Pills: Systematic Review Maps the Future of Medication Safety
A systematic review of 91 studies shows AI-based medication recognition advancing rapidly through detection, OCR, and few-shot learning, while external ...
When Information Overwhelms: How Service Design Shapes Medication Safety for Families Facing Childhood Cancer
A qualitative Australian study finds that caregivers of children with cancer share universal needs for staged, multimodal medication information, and ...
CDC Opioid Guideline Reshaped Prescribing for Older Adults, but Cancer Patients Were Largely Spared
A large SEER-Medicare analysis found that after the 2016 CDC opioid guideline, prescribing and high-risk co-prescribing fell far more among ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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