BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) vary from life-threatening anaphylaxis to minor common side-effects. OBJECTIVE To provide an overview on the assessment of ADRs. To discuss the features of what may be described as a 'reaction to a drug' in order to highlight those suggestive of allergy, side-effect or intolerance, and what implications this might have for the future use or avoidance o...

Introduction: The aim was to assess, categorize and analyze the adverse drug reactions among geriatric patients in a tertiary care hospital. 
 Methods: All of reported at Adverse Drug Reaction Monitoring Center, Sri Venkateswara Medical College, Tirupati, under Pharmacovigilance programme India, during September 2016 January 2018 were identified evaluated. A retrospective analysis carried ...

Pharmacovigilance is a method of quick detection and reporting, of adverse drug reactions and adverse drug events after drug is in clinical use, thus preventing major drug events. Ignorance of physicians in developing world, about reporting adverse drug reaction is a big roadblock to pharmacovigilance. This cascades into many problems e.g.; increased lab to clinic interval, increased premarketi...

Background and Aims Multidrug therapy (MDT) in leprosy has brought the prevalence of leprosy to elimination levels. However, these drugs are not without toxicity. The primary aim of this study was to find the prevalence of adverse drug reactions (ADR) to MDT and the secondary aim to study the clinical features of these drug reactions. Materials and Methods This is a19-year retrospective descr...

The Department of Health estimates that asthma including 10 major causes morbidity and mortality in the hospital. Asthma is a chronic respiratory disease becoming serious health problem many countries around world. Drugs used treatment exacerbations salbutamol aminophylline. such as aminophylline can cause ADR (Adverse Drug Reaction) form tremor with sign involuntary shaking part hand. This res...

BACKGROUND Spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting is the cornerstone of pharmacovigilance. ADR reporting with Yellow Cards has tremendously improved pharmacovigilance of drugs in many developed countries and its use is advocated by the World Health Organization (WHO). This study was aimed at investigating the knowledge and attitude of doctors in a teaching hospital in Lagos, Nigeria ...

INTRODUCTION Adult Still Disease (ASD) is a rare (incidence 1-1,6/1,000,000 in Europe) seronegative polyarthropathy diagnosed with clinical criteria, excluding other etiologies. Minocycline, a semisynthetic derivative of tetracycline, has been associated with many adverse effects. We present the case of a 18-years-old man with a high suspicion of an adverse drug reaction (ADR), that was finally...

BACKGROUND Adverse drug reactions, (ADRs), constitute an important cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Spontaneous adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting is the bedrock of post-marketing surveillance but under-reporting remains its major drawback. OBJECTIVES This study aimed at evaluating the attitude and practice of ADR among doctors in a tertiary health facility in Oyo State, Nigeria...

BACKGROUND RELIS is a Norwegian network of four regional medicine-information and pharmacovigilance centers where pharmacists and clinical pharmacologists provide feedback to health care professionals in spontaneous drug-related questions and adverse drug-reaction (ADR) reports published in a question-answer pair (QAP) database (the RELIS database) and the Norwegian ADR database, respectively. ...