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 ...

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.

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

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 ...

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

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 ...

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 are responsible for 2 million U.S. hospitalizations each year, according to the Department of Health and Human Services, and occur during 10 to 20 percent of ...

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 ...

As a junior doctor in her mid-thirties, working an average of 80 hours a week while raising young children, Cathy Wield found ...