Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a significant cause of hospital admissions and treatment discontinuation worldwide.

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a significant cause of hospital admissions and treatment discontinuation worldwide.

The side effect is rare, according to a new study, but is also the subject of multiple lawsuits, including two filed by Long ...

Adverse drug reactions cause significant morbidity and mortality and incur a large cost to healthcare systems. Pharmacogenomics may help in the prediction and prevention of adverse reactions to drugs.

October 1, 2008 (Vol. 28, No. 17) Pharmacogenomics Is Increasingly Being Employed to Improve Drug Safety Profiles It is common knowledge that genetic influences are often significant in predicting ...

Figure 1. Avoidable and unavoidable adverse drug reactions. ADRs can be classified as avoidable and unavoidable. Some of the avoidable errors are caused by product defects and medication errors.

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) encompass a wide spectrum of unintended and harmful responses to medications, with hypersensitivity syndromes representing some of the most severe and potentially ...

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 ...

Drug reaction with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms (DRESS) is a T-cell–mediated severe cutaneous adverse reaction characterized by rash, fever, internal organ involvement, and systemic ...