The Hy-Vee Pharmacy at 410 N. Ankeny Blvd. in Ankeny, Iowa. (Photo via Google Earth) An Ankeny pharmacy has been fined $1,000 for dispensing the wrong medication to a customer and then failing to ...

The Hy-Vee Pharmacy located at 1501 First Ave. East in Newton was recently sanctioned by the Iowa Board of Pharmacy. (Photo via Google Earth) Several Iowa pharmacies have been cited by the state ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Three-year-old John Casolaro's parents had no idea what was wrong when he was sick this past December. Then, his father noticed something unusual while mixing the boy's liquid ...

It’s every pharmacist’s worst fear: To come home from a busy day at work and realize that they failed to consult with a patient about a potentially dangerous interaction, or filled a prescription ...

Internal data collection suggested that approximately 60% of medications were without a bar code. [2] Therefore, we projected that 3 million medication doses would require repackaging or the addition ...

Former Rite Aid pharmacy technician Priscila Sotelo says she quit her job in Union City during the pandemic because she was burned out and felt the increased workload put patients in danger. “One time ...

A Sioux City pharmacy with a history of regulatory violations has been fined for a medication error that led to a life-threatening situation for a customer. The Iowa ...

LOS ANGELES - Like nearly every industry negatively impacted by the ongoing pandemic, pharmacies are no exception. According to a recent report from The American Pharmacists Association (APhA) and the ...

INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — A former Indianapolis CVS (Consumer Value Stores) employee says understaffing is causing frequent medication mistakes at a near north side store location. Katie Forbes is a ...

Prescribing extended-release opioids to patients who are not educated about the addictive drugs’ effects was the top preventable medication error in 2020, according ...

After Kentucky pharmacy workers dispensed compounded medications to three children, they were all hospitalized. The Kentucky Board of Pharmacy is investigating the ...