Narrative writing is an important part of Pharmacovigilance and in patient safety as well. Usually patient narratives are written in case of Adverse Events and Serious Adverse Events including deaths. Patient narratives form a very important part of clinical study reports and all other post marketing activities. In case of a Serious Adverse Event it […]
This short post is an attempt to cover careers pertaining to Pharmacovigilance. One interested in pursuing this career would come across a term called as “Drug Safety Associate”. So who exactly is a Drug Safety Associate and what are the job responsibilities of such a position holder? The roles and responsibilities of a Drug Safety […]
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. […]
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 […]