Prescription bottle labels. There are about 1.5 million preventable medication errors each year, according to a 2006 report from the Institute of Medicine.

Prescription Drug Warning Labels and Respondent Interpretations ( n = 74) Label Lexile Score/Grade Level No. (%)Participants With Correct Interpretations Incorrect Interpretations; Take ...

They often are the people who find, package, and label prescribed medications. ... A pharmacy technician may be the first person a customer sees when filling a prescription at a store pharmacy.

UGA working to simply prescription labels. Researchers at the University of Georgia are working to find way to make prescription labels less complex and help patients make less mistakes.

N.Y. Senate bill S1740 was drafted and introduced by Sen. Monica Martinez earlier this year, calling for pharmacies to provide audible prescription label readers and or labels for any of their ...