Howe School lecture -- Changing the Management of Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance, May 3
...ffective and pragmatic means. Such is the case of pharmacovigilance and drug safety. Despite years of dealing with issues of adverse event management and reporting, the regulated industries still tend approach this as a data management activity rather than a quality-based function. "This could be a result of the wa...Researchers find deadly prescription drug effects 6 years before FDA
...er of very bad case reports. Bennett leaped into pharmacovigilance -- as the field is called -- when a bad drug reaction got personal. Nearly ten years ago, he was sitting in a case conference when he heard about a woman whose kidneys, brain and blood vessels had mysteriously shut down. No one could figure out why....