2003

November/December

• Safety lessons from the one-hour photo shop
• Tips on how to check your prescriptions before leaving the pharmacy
• When to be sure to tell your healthcare provider that you have shellfish or iodine allergies
• How you can help nurses make sure you do not receive someone else’s medicine
• When eye drops can actually make your eyes feel worse
• A reminder to get your flu shot this month.

September/October

• How to prevent accidental acetaminophen overdoses in children
• Why some medications should not be taken with grapefruit juice
• Understanding why you should not store different medications in the same bottle
• How the appearance of some pills can contribute to accidental ingestion by children
• A simple solution for knowing how much liquid medication your child may have ingested

July/August

• Don’t push the button for others: Patient-Controlled Analgesia
• Theft of mail order prescriptions
• Checklist for safe mail order prescriptions
• How are medications handled at your school or daycare?
• Cartoon
• Consumers can be savvy participants in discussions about safety
• Sharing medications can be dangerous
• Summer danger with St. John’s wort

May/June

• Why you should read the drug information leaflets that come with your prescriptions
• How to know if your Internet pharmacy is certified
• Why you shouldn’t use a teaspoon to measure liquid medications
• Understanding the new “Drug Facts” labels on over-the-counter medications
• Why you can’t use a cell phone in the hospital
• How to tell if your vitamins measure up to high quality standards

March/April

• Look-alike drug names: Lamictal/Lamisil; Zyrtec/Zyprexa
• Don’t throw the carton away
• Question the cost of medicine – Viagra/Allegra
• Take time to read leaflets
• Clues to a mistake
• What is a brand and generic name?