Jeff and Mary Ellen Winter increase akathisia awareness after their daughter, Beth, died within one week of starting Paxil. She was prescribed the drug for mild anxiety. Kim Witzcak, an advisor to the ...

The number of medications prescribed to a patient and patient age could be possible risk factors for adverse drug events, according to research published in Health Services Research. For their study, ...

An oral small molecule drug may reduce gastrointestinal adverse events for adults using a GLP-1-based obesity drug, according ...

Utilization of an electronic health record and greater involvement of pharmacists could help reduce the risk of adverse medication events after a patient’s discharge, according to a Medscape news ...

Evaluating adverse events of medications plays a vital role in post-marketing surveillance of clinical research, but how effective are these results when it comes to influencing public response? A ...

Dr. David Gortler is a pharmacologist, pharmacist, and senior fellow in public health policy and regulation with the Center for Health and Welfare Policy at The Heritage Foundation. He is a former ...

In this study, 3 main themes were identified through patient interviews: perceived relationship with their clinicians, perceived severity of adverse medication events, and patient activation in ...

Among adults treated for community-acquired pneumonia in the outpatient setting, broad-spectrum antibiotics vs macrolide monotherapy were associated with an increased risk for adverse drug events.

The proportion of "serious adverse events," such as shortness of breath, among drug side effects has reached its highest level so far this year. Although causal relationships in serious adverse events ...

In a major new study, researchers from Intermountain Health in Salt Lake City have found that weight loss drugs used by ...