According to National Survey, nearly 80 million of Indians reside in rural areas, consuming medicines for various diseases and data from them are absolutely essential to make Pharmacovigilance Programme of India (PvPI) penultimate. Indian Council of Medical Research (ICMR) extended this service. ICMR-based rural pharmacovigilance comprises allocating funds to ADR monitoring centers (AMCs) and e...

Pharmacovigilance is instrumental in helping to ensure patient safety for both newly released drugs and those that are well established in the market. However, while pharmacovigilance procedures are strictly regulated in the clinical trial setting, post-marketing adverse event reporting is not well implemented or enforced. As such, the underreporting of adverse events, in relation to drugs that...

The pharmacovigilance of vaccines is defined as the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding, prevention and communication of adverse events of immunization, or any other vaccine, or issues related with immunization. The strengthening of pharmacovigilance is very important in every country because it helps professional health care workers to avoid the problems...

Cimicifuga racemosa and Hepatitis Alfredo Vannacci, MD, PhD, is a medical consultant at the Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance and a researcher in the Department of Preclinical and Clinical Pharmacology, Florence, Italy. Francesco Lapi, PharmD, PhD, is a research consultant at the Tuscan Regional Centre of Pharmacovigilance, a research fellow in the Department of Preclinical and Clinic...

Veterinary pharmacovigilance studies the adverse effects of veterinary medicinal products after they have been placed on the market. Information about suspected lack of efficacy, potential environmental risks as well as the validity of the drug withdrawal times are also taken into account. In France, information provided to the national veterinary pharmacovigilance system, which was formally es...

The promise of augmenting pharmacovigilance with patient-generated data drawn from the Internet was called out by a scientific committee charged with conducting a review of the current and planned pharmacovigilance practices of the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). To this end, we present a study on harnessing behavioral data drawn from Internet search logs to detect adverse drug reactions...

In recent years, pharmacovigilance has undergone some major changes. First, the patient's active role in identifying and describing adverse drug reactions (ADRs) has gained recognition. Second, pharmacovigilance has increasingly incorporated information and communications technology (ICT). Patients can now upload their own reports of ADRs online. Data on intensive medication monitoring are now ...

Pharmacovigilance is to track and detect new adverse drug reactions mainly due to drugs or due to any other chemical substance or similar entity. The knowledge of a drug’s adverse reactions can be increased by various means, including spontaneous reporting, intensive monitoring and literature searching. But, in this review, we discuss how the medical literature plays a crucial role in pharmacov...

Pharmacovigilance is the activity related to the collection, analysis and prevention of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) induced by drugs. It leads to the safety survey of pharmaceutical products. The pharmacovigilance process benefits from the traditional statistical approaches and also from the qualitative information on semantic relations between close ADR terms, such as SMQs or hierarchical le...

BACKGROUND Work on pharmacovigilance systems using texts from PubMed and Twitter typically target at different elements and use different annotation guidelines resulting in a scenario where there is no comparable set of documents from both Twitter and PubMed annotated in the same manner. OBJECTIVE This study aimed to provide a comparable corpus of texts from PubMed and Twitter that can be use...