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When intravenous medications are involved in adverse drug events, their harmful effects may occur more rapidly, and be more severe than errors with oral medications. This is due to the direct administration into the bloodstream.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has released reports detailing the deaths of infants (younger than 1 year of age) who died after being given cold and cough medications. This underscores the importance of educating parents that children younger than 2 years of age should never be given over-the-counter cold and cough medications without consulting their physicians.
More than 4.4billion prescriptions were dispensed within the United States in 2016.
Cyanide works by making the human body unable to use oxygen.
The first oral chemotherapy drug for colon cancer was approved by FDA in 2001.