Are patients and insurers paying billions for cancer drugs that literally end up in the trash? It looks like it, according to a new analysis showing that drug waste runs up a tab of about $1.8 billion ...

Multi-dose vials boast advantages of reduced costs and less unused medication waste. But regulatory guidelines geared toward infection control can hinder providers from achieving such benefits.

An Oklahoma City woman has pleaded guilty to tampering with medicine at the hospital where she worked as a nurse, and officials are asking patients who might have been affected to come forward.

On March 1, 2016, we published an article in the BMJ showing how in the US nearly $3 billion will be spent on discarded cancer drugs this year because companies package drugs in vials that contain too ...

SAN ANTONIO – A Texas nurse allegedly stole drug vials meant for patients so he could inject himself with pain medication, and then refilled the vials with another liquid. Bexar County court records ...

The indictment alleges that on Jan. 31, 2022, Mr. Falzarano, 37, took five vials of lorazepam solution he knew was intended to be distributed to patients, removed the medication solution from the ...

Reports that illicit drug users may be targeting the trash at senior living facilities in search of discarded prescription-drug vials have sparked concern among a group of Santa Clarita Valley senior ...