$1.5 Million Robot Cuts Risk Of Drug Errors A new pharmacy robot at Loyola University Hospital is designed to eliminate the type of life-threatening human medication errors that injured actor Dennis Quaid's newborn twins.Loyola's pharmacy recently began filling patient
prescriptions with the two-armed, $1.5 million dollar robot. The robot places single doses of medication in small plastic bags. Each bag has a bar code that identifies the drug.
Source: www.medicalnewstoday.comDeadly Dose: Heparin Expert Helps Uncover Source Of Lethal Contamination The mysterious death of patients around the world following a routine dosage of the common blood thinner, heparin, sent researchers on a frantic search to uncover what could make the standard drug so toxic. A researcher at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute was among a small group of scientists with the expertise and the high-tech equipment necessary to determine the source of the contamination.Robert J. Linhardt, the Ann and John H. Broadbent Jr.
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