Medical Xpress

Changing dosing instructions from teaspoon to milliliter could reduce the risk of dosage errors by 50%

You grab for the cough syrup for some relief from that nasty lingering cold, what do you measure the dose with? Many of us use teaspoons or table spoons to measure out doses for ourselves and our ...
STAT

Complexity of Covid vaccine program leads to concerns about potential for error

The rollout of the Covid-19 vaccination program has reached new heights of complexity with the start of the bivalent booster program, leading to concerns about the potential for more errors in the ...
Reuters

Dosing error turns into lucky punch for AstraZeneca and Oxford

FRANKFURT/LONDON (Reuters) - A stroke of good fortune from a dosing error will pave the way for AstraZeneca and Oxford University to submit their COVID-19 vaccine for ...
Reuters

EXCLUSIVE Oxford kept COVID-19 vaccine trial volunteers in dark about dosing error, letter shows

LONDON (Reuters) - About 1,500 of the initial volunteers in a late-stage clinical trial of the Oxford/AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine were given the wrong dose, but weren't informed that a mistake had ...