These are the 12 drugs sending the most kids to the emergency room

Every year, more than 70,000 kids are taken to the emergency room because they accidentally overdosed on a medication, and most of those kids were less than 2 years old.

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FDA weighs new dose info for kids' pain relievers

Federal health officials are considering adding dosing instructions for children younger than 2 years old to Children's Tylenol and similar products, a change favored by drugmakers and many doctors.

FDA weighs new dose info for kids' pain relievers

Overdose Risk for Young Children on Prescription Pain Drugs

Infants and young children who require prescription pain medications may be at risk for overdose because of dosing errors.

Overdose Risk for Young Children on Prescription Pain Drugs

Young Kids' Prescriptions Not Always on the Mark

For tiniest tots, indicated dosage for narcotics is too high 40 percent of the time, study finds

Young Kids' Prescriptions Not Always on the Mark

Young infants frequently receive overdose amounts of narcotics

Dosage amounts of narcotic drugs dispensed by pharmacies are often incorrect, with the youngest infants receiving at least twice the expected dose 20% of the time, according to findings presented here at the Pediatric Academic Societies' Annual Meeting 2011.

Young infants frequently receive overdose amounts of narcotics

Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Study: Most children's medicines contain confusing measuring devices

Doctors are urging caution with over-the-counter children's medicine as new research released today shows that many products are confusing and could lead to deadly overdoses.

The study found that of 148 products that came with measuring devices, almost all of them - 146 - had inconsistencies between the directions in or on the package and the markings on the device. The research, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at the 200 top-selling pediatric liquid medications in late 2008 and through October of 2009.

Baby Dies From Overdose At Children’s Hospital

Baby Dies From Overdose At Children’s Hospital

Seattle Children's Hospital is under investigation after an infant died from a medication overdose, reported KIRO 7 Eyewitness News.

Quaid sues drug maker over his babies’ overdoses

Quaid sues drug maker over his babies’ overdoses

Actor Dennis Quaid has sued the pharmaceutical company that makes the blood thinner heparin following the overdoses that threatened the lives of his newborn twins three years ago.

The Pfizer Geodon Trial And Physician Mishaps

The Pfizer Geodon Trial And Physician Mishaps

Earlier this month, the FDA sent Pfizer a warning letter for failing to properly monitor pediatric clinical trials in which at least 13 children with bipolar disorder experienced overdosing that led to restless legs, tremors, involuntary facial movements and a serious skin disorder.

U.S. warns Pfizer after children overdosed in study

U.S. health regulators have warned Pfizer Inc over a series of failures that led to the overdosing of at least 13 children in a clinical trial of its antipsychotic drug Geodon, according to a letter made public on Tuesday.

U.S. warns Pfizer after children overdosed in study

Fewer children drug poisoned

The number of children admitted to hospital with drug poisoning has fallen to its lowest level in four years, new figures show.

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ER physician says overdose killed Rebecca Riley

On Thursday, a Children’s Hospital pathologist said Rebecca Riley could have died from a combination of pneumonia and toxic amounts of a prescription drug. But an emergency room doctor from the same hospital was not hesitant on Friday.

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Beware Kitchen Spoons

Parents who use kitchen spoons to measure medicine risk poisoning their kids.

It sounds like a commonsense statement, but researchers at Cornell University found that people who are confident about measuring the right amount of cold or cough syrup often get it wrong. In a test of 195 people, the study participants poured, on average, 12 percent too much medicine. Those who under-poured missed the mark by 8 percent on average. The findings are published in the Annals of Internal Medicine.

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US parents on trial over girl's overdose

Before she turned three, Rebecca Riley was diagnosed with attention deficit hyperactivity and bipolar disorders.

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Children at Risk of Accidental Drug Overdose

Most parents install child safety locks on their cleaning closets to keep kids out of the Clorox, but many leave the medicine cabinets unprotected. A new study from the Center for Disease Control shows that children are twice as likely to visit the emergency room for overdosing on medicine than on other household products.

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Australian coroner: Couple gave baby drug overdose

An Australian toddler died after being given morphine and methadone by either his mother or her boyfriend, but there is not enough evidence to charge either of them, a coroner found on Friday.

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