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Joint Commission issues new heparin rules

September 24, 2008 — 1:53pm ET | By Anne Zieger
In recent years, there's been nearly 60,000 heparin-related errors in hospitals, with about 1,700 result in patient harm or death. To turn this around, the Joint Commission has issued a safety alert... Read more...

FDA finds 20 drugs that could cause serious adverse reactions

September 7, 2008 — 8:48pm ET | By Anne Zieger
The FDA has released its first quarterly report analyzing drugs for safety risks, concluding that at least 20 drugs have been found to cause serious adverse reactions. The report, the first of an... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Number of uninsured young people rises; Study shows problems in physician EMR adoption; and much more...

June 3, 2008 — 6:59am ET
> New research suggests that the number of young adults going without health insurance rose again in 2006, with 34 percent of college graduates spending some time uninsured in the year after... Read more...

Heparin scare leads to new dosing issue

May 16, 2008 — 6:59am ET
While efforts to make dosing safer in the wake of recent heparin-related deaths make sense, such efforts have created a fresh set of safety concerns for providers who use it, observers say. For one... Read more...

FDA says hospitals may still have recalled heparin

May 12, 2008 — 6:59am ET
Despite widespread publicity about heparin problems, several California hospitals were found to still have recalled heparin products in their supply chains, suggesting that the problem could still be... Read more...

Number of heparin-related deaths reported triples

April 9, 2008 — 6:59am ET
A new report from the FDA suggests that recent problems with heparin have proven to be even worse than originally thought. The report concludes that deaths linked to all versions of... Read more...

Quaid working to reduce medical errors

March 28, 2008 — 7:59am ET
Actor Dennis Quaid, whose newborn twins nearly were killed by an overdose of heparin last year, is now becoming an advocate to reduce medical errors. Quaid, at the annual meeting of the Association... Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Sutter claims nurse strike won't affect operations; Wash. group pushes for patient care reporting; and much more...

March 24, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> With thousands of its nurses poised to go on a 10-day strike, Sutter Health is telling the public that business will still go on as usual. Read more...

ALSO NOTED: Canadian group releases major safety guideline update; Tainted heparin was deliberately altered; and much more...

March 20, 2008 — 7:59am ET
> The Canadian Patient Safety Institute has issued new guidelines which observers have called a major step forward in quality of care. Read more...