There are plenty of reasons you might wonder, “What pill is this?” WebMD’s Pill Identifier can help you put a name to an unknown medication. It identifies prescription and over-the-counter ...

Unless the drug is a good counterfeit, the identification process is very straightforward. By law, every tablet or capsule approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) must look unique from ...

Relief is coming for crime scene investigators and toxicologists who have struggled to accurately and swiftly identify drugs ...

The second meeting was spent reviewing a worksheet of patient identification failure modes and effects related to admitting, the emergency department, and pharmacy services. The third team meeting ...

To develop new antibiotics, researchers typically identify the genes that make bacteria resistant ... By targeting the ...

Patient identification errors in the medication-ordering process are often difficult to detect. The FMEA team recommended enhancing all clinical information systems to require two unique patient ...