• Pharmacovigilance

    Pharmacovigilance is the science and activities relating to the detection, assessment, understanding and prevention of adverse effects or any other medicine-related problem

  • Importance of Pharmacovigilance

    This Program for International Drug Monitoring was established by WHO as a result of the thalidomide disaster detected in 1961.

  • Apart from drugs Pharmacovigilance also includes:

    •Traditional and complementary medicines •Herbals •Biologicals •Blood products •Medical devices •Vaccines

  • Pharmacovigilance covers the following

    Drug monitoring Pharmaceutical preparations - adverse effects Adverse drug reaction reporting Product surveillance Postmarketing Legislation

  • Pharmacovigilance Unit

    Dept of Pharmacology

Tuesday, 25 August 2015




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