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, ...

Older adults who leave the hospital with a long list of medications face a compounding danger: each additional prescription ...

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 ...

The FDA has received hundreds of adverse event reports after people used compounded GLP-1 drugs for weight loss. Compounded GLP-1 drugs aren’t reviewed by the FDA for safety or effectiveness. The FDA ...

As Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and FDA leadership continue to look for ways to boost transparency and reshape the U.S' healthcare infrastructure, the U.S. drug regulator has unveiled ...

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 ...

Adverse events affect more than a third (38%) of adults undergoing surgery, finds a study of admissions to 11 hospitals in the US state of Massachusetts, published by The BMJ today. Of the 1009 ...

It’s out with the old, in with the new at the FDA as the agency is unveiling a new adverse events monitoring system that joins several reporting systems into one unified platform, an effort that’s ...