The Institute for Safe Medication Practices is calling on pharmacists and other healthcare practitioners to complete a survey on medication storage, according to an ISMP Medication Safety Alert!

Proper medication management is essential to maintain quality and patient safety in a healthcare organization. A key element of medication management is medication storage, which includes security, ...

(BPT) - Allergy season is behind us and before flu season strikes, now is the time for consumers to clean out their medicine cabinet and brush up on medication consumption and storage tips. A recent ...

Many of us keep our medications in a bathroom medicine cabinet, but experts say that’s not the most appropriate place. “Storing them in the bathroom can introduce moisture to the medications, which ...

The following article is written by Pamela Dembski Hart, CHSP, BS, MT (ASCP), principal of Healthcare Accreditation Resources. The nation is witnessing an alarming growth of patient-to-patient ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Barry Dunn, the president and CEO of Kosair for Kids. (Kosair photo) With Kentucky kids dying from access to substances, Kosair ...

Kosair for Kids is partnering with several organizations to spread the word. According to Kentucky's Child Fatality and Near Fatality External Review Panel, more than one-third of all cases reported ...

Most of us bring medicines home, tuck them into a bathroom cabinet or leave them on a kitchen shelf and never think twice about it. But the way you store your medicines can make the difference between ...