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Nearly 3,200 pairs of U.S. approved generic and brand drug names look or sound enough alike that health care workers mix up the medications. That's the finding of new research from the United States Pharmacopeia (USP), which reviewed more than 26,000 records in two USP-associated medication error reporting programs for 2003-2006.

Too many look-alike, sound-alike drug names