Medicine Mix-Ups Harm Hospitalized Kids

April 7th, 2008 in Medicine & Health / Health
Medicine Mix-Ups Harm Hospitalized Kids (AP)

The prestigious Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, was fined $25,000 by state health regulators on Thursday, March 20, 2008, for giving overdoses of a blood thinner to three infants including the newborn twins of actor Dennis Quaid. The California Department of Public Health cited Cedars-Sinai, seen here in a file photo taken Jan. 4, 2008, and 10 other hospitals for violations that "has caused, or was likely to cause, serious injury or death to patients." (AP Photo/Nick Ut)

(AP) -- Medicine mix-ups, accidental overdoses and bad drug reactions harm roughly one out of 15 hospitalized children, according to the first scientific test of a new detection method.

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