Medical practitioners need to implement new strategies for decreasing adverse drugs reactions among seniors, conclude the authors of a scientific literature review led by Michael Steinman, MD, a ...

Researchers have identified an increasing trend in medicine-related harm leading to hospital admission. Researchers at the University of Liverpool have identified an increasing trend in ...

In the United Kingdom, adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to cardiovascular drugs are very common, especially in older and sicker patients. Prevention may include educating patients, monitoring patient ...

A new study from Queen Mary University of London found that 9% of all reported adverse drug reactions (ADRs) reported to the UK medicines regulator are associated with medications where side effect ...

Laura A. B. Wilson receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Shinichi Nakagawa receives funding from the Australian Research Council. Compared to men, we know much less about how women ...

Concerned over the widely used life-saving beta blocker drugs causing adverse drug reactions, the government’s Indian Pharmacopoeia Commission (IPC) has issued an alert about the same. An adverse drug ...

In a recent study published in Therapies, researchers presented an overview of sex-based differences in adverse drug reactions (ADRs) based on epidemiology, technique, and underlying mechanism data.

Adverse drugs reactions are a leading cause of admission to hospital. Genetic variation is believed to contribute to a majority of serious immune-mediated adverse drug reactions. Now gene variants ...

For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse events system has been the primary surveillance tool for monitoring potential side effects caused by drugs after they get on the market.