Tucked away in the Smithsonian Institution's $624 million budget that Congress passed last year was a line item for $700,000 that right now is transforming Lee Weigt's laboratory at the institution's ...

Since the 1970s, bar codes have provided a reliable, inexpensive form of machine-readable identification. Although bar coding has numerous benefits, its primary function is to error-proof the ...

Improved bar-coding of all drugs and standardization of bar-coding would significantly reduce medication errors and save lives, say the Institute of Safe Medication Practices Canada (ISMP Canada) and ...

We've known the dismal statistics for a while now. Each year as many as 98,000 Americans die as a result of human errors made in hospitals. MORE THAN 7,000 of them--a higher number than those lost to ...