Drug monitoring may be tightened - The Food and Drug Administration, the American drug regulator, is set to tighten controls on the safety of drugs so that adverse reactions can be iden...

The 3 most dangerous drugs: They cause a third of all adverse reactions in the elderly - Just three drugs are responsible for a third of all serious adverse reactions among the elderly. The drugs – warfarin, insulin and digoxin – were 35...

New ms drug: suicide risk - A drug which could cause suicidal depression has been licenced by the American Food and Drug Administration to treat multiple sclerosis. ...

Wonder slimming drug: It increases suicide risk - If you want to lose weight, don’t take the ‘wonder’ slimming drug Acomplia (rimonabant). Although it sailed through the approval process in Europe, a...

Nausea and vomiting - It's probably surprising to learn that nausea and vomiting in all its varieties from migraines and hangovers to the after effects of anaesthetics all...

Adverse Reactions: 700,000 people need emergency hospital care every year - Statistic of the week: Every year 700,000 people in the USA need emergency out-patient hospital care following an adverse reaction to a prescription...

Drug Reactions: Report side effects yourself, patients are told - It’s been reckoned that just one in 60,000 side effects to drugs is ever reported – and finally the UK’s drug regulator wants to do something about it...

Adverse drug reactions need to be taken seriously - I regularly hear from patients and parents that reporting adverse drug reactions to doctors frequently leads to denial of the association This short...