Common Medication Errors Affecting Patient Safety
Health Risk Management Week, running from June 16th to 20th, highlights the importance of effective risk management in healthcare organizations to minimize medication errors. One area of healthcare that can greatly benefit from proper risk management is medication administration. Medication errors can happen to anyone. Many people are familiar with a well-known case involving a […]
The Role of COX Enzymes in Pain and Inflammation
Everyone deals with physical pain at some point in life. No matter what kind of pain it is, it’s usually caused by inflammation. Inflammation, or swelling, happens when the body reacts to an injury, illness, or something that irritates it. Inflammation is often seen as a bad thing, but it’s actually part of the immune system’s […]
The Caffeine Drug
Coffee is the natural picker upper. It is the one thing that gets some us through the day, or at least out of bed. Coffee today is so common and seems so harmless that we forget that it is actually a psychoactive drug. What that means is that the caffeine drug is classified in the […]
