Medication Safety Alert! May/June 2019

In this issue:

• Using a Spare Medicine Vial to Hold Multiple Daily Medicines Can Be Dangerous
• FDA’s Remove the Risk campaign encourages Americans to dispose of unused prescription opioids safely
• How to help a child who develops a fever after vaccination
• Advice from FDA: Beware of unproven claims for treating multiple diseases and conditions
• Insist on a double-check if something feels amiss
• Medicines in long-term care
• Medicines that speed sunburn
• in the NEWS: New Question Builder app helps maximize benefit of doctor's visits

For access to featured articles and more medication safety information, visit our consumer website, www.ConsumerMedSafety.org.