Background and Objectives: The advent of multi-source generic drugs has exacerbated the prevalence spread counterfeit sub-standard requiring increased vigilance collaboration from drug regulatory authorities. Post-marketing surveillance (PMS) medicines therefore plays an important role in detecting poor quality products on market. Risk-Based Post-Market Surveillance (RB-PMS) RB-PMS helps optimi...

Objective: To investigate and analyze the post-marketing adverse event (AE) data of multiple sclerosis (MS) therapeutic drug dalfampridine using US Food Drug Administration Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) for its clinical safety application. Methods: Use OpenVigil2.1 platform to obtain AE from FAERS February 2010 September 2022. Match “adverse reaction” with preferred term (PT) system or...

Drug safety monitoring is important in children. Young age, polypharmacy, prolonged hospitaliza-tion, being critically ill and use of unlicensed and off-label drugs have been identified as risk factors which predispose a child to experience an adverse drug reaction. In our country, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, setting up of intensive care units, increasing availability of imaging studies, and the int...

Learning outcomes On completion of this article you should have: • an understanding of the factors that predispose the elderly to adverse drug reactions • a detailed knowledge of ocular side effects of systemic drugs commonly prescribed to the elderly • a detailed knowledge of the side effects of topical ophthalmic drugs commonly used by elderly patients • an understanding of the importance of ...

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Nowadays, social media is often being used by users to create public messages or posts that are related to their health. With the increasing number of social media usage, a trend has been observed of users creating posts related to adverse drug reactions. Mining social media data for these information can be used for pharmacological post-marketing surveillance and monitoring. We developed a bin...