Posts by: Dr. Ben
A study presented at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting in Denver and reported by Bloomberg Businessweek: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/652405.html found that for children younger than 2 months, the prescribed dosage for narcotics was too high 40 percent of the time.
The study reviewed more than 50,000 prescriptions for narcotic-containing drugs given to kids up [...]
From the American Association of Poison Control Centers:
For Immediate Release April 13, 2011
American Association of Poison Control Centers: Poison Centers Federal Appropriations Cut by Nearly 25 percent in Proposed FY 2011 Continuing Resolution; Damaging Impact to States’ Ability to Help Citizens
Alexandria, Va. –U.S. poison centers suffered a nearly 25 percent cut in [...]
A new study by researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy of The Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital examined emergency department (ED) visits for drug-related poisonings and found that in just one year (2007) in the U.S., there were approximately 700,000 ED visits costing nearly $1.4 billion in ED charges alone. This [...]
