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Strengthening Drug Safety
Food & Drug Administration — FDA recently announced 41 initiatives it is undertaking to make drugs, as well as other medical products, as safe as possible. In any given week, half of U.S. adults will use prescription medicines and 10 percent will take at least 5 different ...More…
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Managing Drug Safety Issues
Food & Drug Administration — Paul Seligman, M.D., M.P.H., is Associate Director of Safety Policy and Communication in FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation and Research. Dr. Seligman graduated from the University of California Davis School of Medicine and the University of ...More…
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Drug Labeling
Food & Drug Administration — In accordance with Section 915 of the Food and Drug Administration Amendments Act of 2007 (FDAAA), this website contains links to postmarket drug safety information to improve transparency and communication to patients and healthcare ...More…
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Vaccine Adverse Events
Food & Drug Administration — Questions about the Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) The Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System (VAERS) is a national vaccine safety surveillance program co-sponsored by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Centers for ...More…
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Off-label drugs and medical devices: Get the facts
Mayo Clinic — Discover what it means when you're prescribed a drug or medical device off-label. You've heard the term "off-label" used to describe the drug you've been prescribed. Or maybe you had a stent inserted after your heart attack and now ...More…
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FDA Seizes Contaminated Heparin from a Cincinnati ...
Food & Drug Administration — FDA Seizes Contaminated Heparin from a Cincinnati Manufacturer As part of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's ongoing efforts to ensure that heparin for patients remains safe, the government today seized 11 lots of heparin from Celsus ...More…
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Is It Really FDA Approved?
Food & Drug Administration — Structure-function claims on dietary supplements and other foods An FDA Web page serves as a gateway to information about approvals of FDA-regulated products: www.fda.gov/opacom/7approvl.html You can search for FDA approval information by product ...More…
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Medicamentos: Úselos con Cuidado
National Institute of Aging — Las personas mayores de 65 años de edad usan más medicamentos y más remedios sin receta que las personas de otras edades. Las personas mayores tienden a padecer de más enfermedades crónicas de largo plazo - tales como artritis, diabetes, ...More…
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Medicamentos: cómo usarlos de manera segura
Kids Health — Darle un medicamento a su hijo de manera segura puede resultar complicado. Quizá se sienta atemorizado por tener que suministrarle a su hijo un medicamento cuya dosis debe ser exacta, ya que sabe que si le da muy poco o demasiado pueden aparecer ...More…
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Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in ...
Annals of Internal Medicine — The summary below is from the full report titled "Medication Use Leading to Emergency Department Visits for Adverse Drug Events in Older Adults." It is in the 4 December 2007 issue of Annals of Internal Medicine (volume 147, pages 755-765). The ...More…
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Medicamentos falsificados
World Health Organization — La falsificación de medicamentos es parte del fenómeno más amplio de la difusión de fármacos que incumplen las normas establecidas en materia de seguridad, calidad y eficacia. En las etiquetas de esos medicamentos se incluye, de manera deliberada ...More…
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Medicine Safety: Who's At Risk and What You Can Do
Centers for Disease Control — One of the most important things patients can do to keep themselves and their families safe is to learn how to properly take, monitor, and store their medicines. Medication safety includes a number of things that patients can do to make sure that ...More…