PHARMACIST

Ten people at an Oklahoma care facility for people with intellectual disabilities were hospitalized after they were apparently accidentally injected with what’s believed to be insulin rather than flu shots, authorities said. Emergency responders were called Wednesday afternoon to the Jacquelyn House in Bartlesville, about 40 miles (65 kilometers) north of Tulsa, on a report of an unresponsive person and...

Doctors in Pennsylvania will be required to prescribe opioids electronically, starting Oct. 24, in response to the American opioid epidemic and the susceptibility to fraud of handwritten prescriptions.

The prescription pad of a doctor at the Veterans Administration in Philadelphia was used to purchase opioids at pharmacies across eastern Pennsylvania. It’s a tale of fraudulent prescription-writing that the Drug Enforcement Administration calls “a big issue.”

Crowds are gathering in London and other major British cities to protest Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s suspension of Parliament for part of the period before the Brexit deadline in two months. Several thousand protesters gathered near Johnson’s residence at 10 Downing Street in central London, while others protested in in Belfast, York and others cities to show determination to block...

Stores and pharmacies across New Jersey are giving out free doses of Naloxone, the drug that can reverse the effects of an opioid overdose. The move is gtiving some hope to families of people battling drug addiction.

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy is launching a one-day program to give out the drug that saves people from opioid overdoses for free.

Teva Pharmaceuticals has expanded its recall of blood pressure and heart medicine by discontinuing sales of certain 50 mg and 100 mg strength losartan potassium USP Tablets, according to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Teva’s recall started on April 25 due to the detection of a carcinogen in an active ingredient. The drugs listed in recall notices this week...

Police are searching for a man accused of recording several underage girls with his cellphone inside a Target store in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Police are searching for a person of interest accused of secretly recording underage girls inside a Target store in Voorhees, New Jersey.

Items such as mobile devices and musical instruments can be damaged if left inside a car in freezing temperatures, while canned goods and glass bottles are exploding hazards that could leave you with a sticky mess....
As a deadly polar vortex grips a large swath of the U.S. with record-low temperatures, experts warn these are among the worst items to leave...

U.S. regulators cleared the first generic competitor to Mylan’s EpiPen, after a yearslong delay that many said contributed to the emergency allergy drug’s rapid rise in price. Teva Pharmaceuticals received Food and Drug Administration approval for generic versions of both the EpiPen and EpiPen Jr, the agency said in a statement Tuesday.

When an ultrasound found Nicole Artega’s 8-week-old fetus had no heartbeat, her doctor gave her two options: Surgery or medication to induce a miscarriage. She chose the latter. But when Artega went to a Walgreens pharmacy in Peoria, Arizona, the pharmacist refused to fill her prescription on “moral” grounds.

A woman says a pharmacist denied her doctor’s prescription for miscarriage medications to end her 10-week-old pregnancy based on moral grounds. Nicole Artega’s baby had stopped development, and her doctor had told her the pregnancy would end in a miscarriage. Her doctor gave her two options: have a surgery, or have get a prescription for the medication and take it...

A Long Island man is suing CVS after a pharmacist allegedly babbled about his use of an erectile-dysfunction drug to his wife.

There’s a shortage of the Epipen, which many people rely on to save their lives. A local woman who relies on the EpiPen shares the impact the shortage has had on her life.

Restore Integrative Wellness Center will be located in Philly’s trendy Fishtown neighborhood, directly next to The Barbary nightclub and across the street from The Fillmore music venue.

Prince’s heirs have sued Walgreens and the Illinois hospital that treated the music superstar after he suffered from an opioid overdose, alleging that a doctor and various pharmacists failed to provide Prince with reasonable care, contributing to his death. The wrongful-death lawsuit filed in Cook County, Illinois, alleges a doctor and pharmacist at Trinity Medical Center in Moline, Illinois, failed...

For the second time in two weeks, thieves have targeted pharmacies in South Jersey and police are working to find out if they’re related. NBC10’s South Jersey Bureau reporter Cydney Long has exclusive video of their most recent robbery.

Spain’s government and the main opposition party agreed Friday to hold a new election in Catalonia in January as part of special measures to try to resolve the country’s deepest political crisis in decades. The move is likely to further inflame tensions between Spain and Catalan pro-independence activists. Catalonia’s government says it has the mandate to secede from Spain after...

A local pharmacist is accused of trying to kill her ailing mother by repeatedly injecting her with insulin with the hopes of “ending her suffering.”