Adverse drug events are more common in older people with comorbidities, a new study finds. Factors that are independently linked with adverse drug events are being female, taking more drugs daily, ...

The evaluation of drug safety in clinical trials is a critical element of the drug development process, ensuring that therapeutic benefits outweigh potential harms. Clinical trials, particularly in ...

Consolidating adverse event databases is a smart move, but without public education, real-time transparency risks becoming ...

Adverse reactions to prescription drugs (adverse drug events, or ADEs) are quite common and usually do little harm to patients. But in a small percentage of cases, they can have serious consequences ...

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 assessment of causation for a potential drug interaction requires thoughtful consideration of the properties of both the object and precipitant drugs, patient-specific factors, and the possible ...

Nearly 25% of hospital admissions included at least one adverse event, as indicated from data from 2809 admissions at 11 hospitals. The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS), which focused on ...

Adverse drug events can add approximately $3,000 to hospitalization costs, according to research published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety. For their study, researchers ...

A new study out this week in the journal Social Science and Medicine proposes that social, gendered variables may better explain observed sex disparities in adverse drug events than sex-based biology.