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- Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist."
- The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) - Prescription Medications - Resources on prescription drug misuse, abuse, and addiction. Includes information about different drugs and partner organizations.
- Prescription Drug Safety - General safety information on prescription drugs for consumers and health care professionals presented by Ortho McNeil Neurologics.
- Thomas J. Moore: The Drug Safety Problem - Shows how the drug safety system may and may not protect consumers from adverse effects. Includes articles about the FDA, antidepressants, and nutritional supplements.
- Ottosen Site for Drug Safety and Pharmacovigilance - Information about drug safety and clinical studies. Includes discussion forum, news and practical information about issues like safety reporting, licensing, contracts, PSUR, E2B, electronic submission.
- Making Medicines Safer - The Need for an Independent Drug Safety Board - From the New England Journal of Medicine. "Currently, after a drug is approved for marketing, we rely on a voluntary reporting system based on the assumption that a drug is safe... It is remarkable that at a time when the technology for collecting and analyzing large amounts of data is readily available, an independent, comprehensive, and systematic program of post-marketing drug surveillance does not exist."
- Polypharmacy - Article describing the harmful effects of taking too many medical drugs at the same time, and criticising the doctors who prescribe drugs as an easy option without taking the time to do a proper diagnosis.
- MedWatch - The FDA Medical Products Reporting Program - How to report adverse events/reactions to medications, drug products or medical devices to the Food and Drug Administration voluntary reporting system.
- Panel looks at safety of arthritis drugs - [CNN]
- FDA Review - An extensive resource on the regulation of pharmaceuticals and medical devices focusing on the Food and Drug Administration. Includes a history, an evaluation of policy, and a bibliography with many links.
Wikipedia Articles
- State Food and Drug Administration - The State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA ) is founded on the basis of the State Drug Administration. The State Food and Drug Administration is directly under the State Council of the People's Republic of China, which is in charge of comprehensive supervision on the safety management of food, health food and cosmetics and is the competent authority of drug regulation in mainland ...
- Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee - The Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee or ADRAC is a subcommittee of the Australian Drug Evaluation Committee (ADEC) which monitors the safety of medicines in Australia. ADRAC evaluates reports from the Adverse Drug Reactions Unit of the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), which administers the adverse drug reaction (ADR) reporting system in Australia, and may make recommendations regarding the medication including withdrawal of ...
- Investigational New Drug - The Food and Drug Administration's Investigational New Drug (IND) program is the means by which a pharmaceutical company obtains permission to ship an experimental drug across state lines (usually to clinical investigators) before a marketing application for the drug has been approved. The FDA reviews the IND application for safety to assure that research subjects ...
- Personal Track Safety - A Personal Track Safety (PTS) Certificate is required before anybody is allowed to work within the boundary of Network Rail tracks in the UK. Any potential employee must undergo a medical and a drug and alcohol test before attending a "personal track safety" course.
- Radar (Research on Adverse Drug events And Reports) - The aims of the Research on Adverse Drug events And Reports (RADAR) Project are to disseminate safety reports for serious adverse drug reactions (sADRs) and to identify barriers to identification and reporting of these clinical events. Investigators have developed a well-coordinated system to accurately compile case report information on sADRs and to identify milestones associated with identification and reporting of the relevant ADR ...