Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) till date are still considered as one of the main problems therapy. Pharmacovigilance is monitoring safety by means spontaneous adverse-effect reporting systems, case control and cohort studies.
 This study evaluated levels awareness knowledge pharmacovigilance (i.e., ADR reporting) amongst final year students Rivers State College Health Science Technology, Po...

AIMS AND METHODS To describe patients with decreased libido during use of a HMG-CoA-reductase-inhibitor, and to discuss causality and pharmacological hypotheses for this association by analysis of the adverse drug reactions (ADR) database of the Netherlands Pharmacovigilance Centre Lareb. RESULTS Eight patients were identified as having decreased libido during use of statins. In two of these ...

adverse drug reaction (adr) is one of the most life threatening problems, and the economic burden of adr is considerable. the main objective of this study was to assess the attitude of the kerman health system staff, to evaluate their knowledge of the spontaneous reporting system and to identify the reasons for low reporting rate. in this descriptive study, a persian translated questioner was u...

S : scientific #bd14 | big data conference 44 Dr Chen Wang Senior Research Scientist CSIRO Computational Informatics Dr Chen Wang is a Senior Research Scientist at CSIRO Computational Informatics. He received his PhD from Nanjing University. His research interests are primarily in distributed, parallel and trustworthy systems. His current work focus on data analytics systems for drug adverse re...

Antimicrobials are used widely especially in developing countries, due to the high prevalence of various infectious diseases. Inappropriate use antimicrobials associated with adverse drug reactions. The present study was done analyze patterns Adverse Drug Reactions (ADR) reported Reaction Monitoring Centre (AMC) during last five years. This a 5 year retrospective and cross-sectional study. Aft...

Aim: To assess the attitudes and perceptions of medical practitioners towards adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting and factors that influence the reporting of ADR. Method: A suitable self-administered survey questionnaire was designed and randomly circulated to 110 doctors in three different hospitals where local hospital based ADR reporting system exist. Results: A total of 97 filled question...

Drug–drug interaction is one of the important problems of Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR). This presentation describes a data mining approach to this problem developed at the University of Ballarat. This approach is based on drug–reaction relationships represented in the form of a vector of weights; each vector related to a particular drug can be considered as a pattern in causing adverse drug reac...

Tuberculosis (TB) is a communicable disease caused by the bacillus Mycobacterium tuberculosis and leading cause of death single infectious agent overall. According to WHO Global TB Report, India contributes 26% global burden TB. Currently, four-drug regimen comprising Rifampicin, Isoniazid, Pyrazinamide, Ethambutol approved for treatment drug-sensitive The management cutaneous adverse drug reac...