Posts by: Dr. Ben
There’s an important campaign being launched by the CDC to protect children from unintentional medication overdoses. The campaign is called, Up and Away and Out of Sight.
From the CDC website:
http://blogs.cdc.gov/safehealthcare/?p=2070
Keeping Medicines Up and Away and Out of Sight of Toddlers
December 13th, 2011 2:53 pm ET
Up And Away Campaign
There have been several news articles this past week regarding a new study to be published in the Journal of Pediatrics: The Growing Impact of Pediatric Pharmaceutical Poisoning.
From U.S. News and World Report, September 16, 2011:
http://health.usnews.com/health-news/managing-your-healthcare/treatment/articles/2011/09/16/accidental-medication-poisonings-in-kids-on-the-rise
Despite ongoing prevention efforts, a growing number of young children are being accidentally poisoned [...]
This past week there has been much news about an FDA released guidance document for manufacturers of liquid OTC drugs, calling for all such products to be packaged with calibrated dosing devices.
These recommendations follow from work done by a CDC led task force which resulted in the PROTECT initiative: http://www.cdc.gov/medicationsafety/protect/protect_Initiative.html.
From the Stanford School [...]
