Pharamcovigilance
Pharamcovigilance Pharmacovigilance the science related to detection , assessment , understanding and prevention of adverse effect , particularly long term and short term side effect of medicines. Generally speaking, Pharmacovigilance is the collecting, monitoring, searching and evaluating information from healthcare providers and patients on the adverse effect of medication, biological products, herbalism and traditional medicines with a view to: 1) Identified new information about hazards associated with medicines 2) Preventing harm to patients The etymological routes are: pharmacon (Greek), “Drugs” , and Vigilare (Latin), “to keep away or alert, to keep watch” . Pharmacovigilance is particular is concerned with adverse drug reaction, or ADRs, which are prescribed as: “A response to a drug which is noxious and unintended, and which occurs at doses normally used for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy ...