'Deaths taint Texas pharmacy (Laredo Morning Times)PORTLAND, Ore. - The deaths of three people who were given toxic doses of a drug at an Oregon clinic highlight the potential for fatal errors by compounding pharmacies, according to a report released Thursday by the Centers for Disease Control.This spring, Texas compounding pharmacy ApotheCure Inc. erroneously made a drug 10 times more potent than intended because of a weighing error.
'Pharmacy robbery defendant enters plea (Everett Herald)ARLINGTON -- The last of three defendants pleaded guilty Thursday in the July 21 robbery of an Arlington pharmacy. Alicia Nielsen, 19, of Everett is expected to be sentenced in January in federal court.
'Colchicine deaths blamed on pharmacy error (Reuters via Yahoo! News) Two recent deaths, and possibly a third, from intravenous colchicine therapy at an alternative medicine clinic were the result of a compounding pharmacy error, health authorities reported Thursday in the Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report.