Pharmacovigilance is the division of science relating to to the detection, inference, understanding and evasion of unfavorable effects, chiefly long and short term detrimental effects associated with medicines. In broader sense, it deals with collection, monitoring, estimating and analyzing information from medical service providers and patients on the evil effects of allopathic, biological and herbal medications and unconventional medicines. […]
What is Pharmacovigilance :- Pharmacovigilance is the standard practice of using scientific and other techniques to monitor, track and evaluate the consequences of medication, with a focus on identifying and keeping the quality and protection of customer medication in mind. Pharmacovigilance applications that observe medication protection in the market often have to deal with fake medication, […]
The Indian Pharmaceutical industry is growing at a rate of 12-14% per annum. Now, India is emerging as a destination for Drug Discovery and Development and is a Global Hub for Clinical Trials. Rapid growth in pharmaceutical entities and clinical trials has thrown up challenges of monitoring Adverse Drug Reactions (ADRs) over the global population. […]
All of us have fallen sick at some point in our lives and all of us have taken medicines to get ourselves cured! When we pop in those pills purchased over the counter we consume them assuming that they are safe. Why do we assume so? and who checks whether the drug is actually safe […]