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Medication errors are three times higher among children and infants than with adults.
Aspirin is the most widely used drug in the world. It has even been recognized as such by the Guinness Book of World Records.
The average person is easily confused by the terms pharmaceutics and pharmacology, thinking they are one and the same. Whereas pharmaceutics is the science of preparing and dispensing drugs (otherwise known as the science of pharmacy), pharmacology is the study of medications.
Automated pill dispensing systems have alarms to alert patients when the correct dosing time has arrived. Most systems work with many varieties of medications, so patients who are taking a variety of drugs can still be in control of their dose regimen.
Bacteria have flourished on the earth for over three billion years. They were the first life forms on the planet.