Wednesday, October 7, 2009

Pharmacovigilance (PV) or drug safety


Pharmacovigilance (PV) or drug safety is the pharmacological science relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention adverse reactions, particularly long term and short term side effects of medicines.

Generally speaking, pharmacovigilance is the science of collecting, monitoring, researching, assessing and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effects of medications, biological products

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