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A Call to Enhance Active and Transparent Pharmacovigilance for COVID-19 Vaccines
… ce the risk of vaccine hesitancy. We wish to reiterate this with a call to enhance active and transparent pharmacovigilance for COVID-19 vaccines. As of 7 October 2022, 47 COVID-19 vaccine candidates had been approved globally for emergency use and 89 were in phase three clinical trials. Eswatini approved the Oxford/As …
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Adverse Drug Reactions Among Hospitalized Psychiatric Patients, Prevalence, Severity, Preventability, and Opportunities for Intervention
Objectives: The objective of this study was to boost pharmacovigilance activity in our psychiatry referral hospital and highlight the pharmacist's role in preventing, detecting, and managing adverse drug reactions (ADRs). Our goal was to promote patient safety and compliance with psychotropic medication by identifying …
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Medications Without Harm?
The World Health Organization (WHO) defines an adverse drug reaction (ADR) as a response to a medicine which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used in man for prophylaxis, diagnosis, or therapy. ADRs can vary from a common mild side effect to a more severe anaphylaxis reaction. ADRs are cons …
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The Applications of Genetic Algorithms in Medicine
… introduces the applications of the genetic algorithm in disease screening, diagnosis, treatment planning, pharmacovigilance, prognosis, and health care management, and enables physicians to envision possible applications of this metaheuristic method in their medical career.