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, ...

Adverse drug reactions (ADRs) are a significant cause of hospital admissions and treatment discontinuation worldwide. Conventional approaches often fail to detect rare or delayed effects of medicinal ...

Drug eruptions are adverse skin reactions to drugs that occur in about 3% of hospitalized people. They may resemble skin diseases very closely but generally fade away when the drug is withdrawn. Type ...

Four of every 1000 individuals will be treated in an emergency department (ED) for an adverse drug reaction each year, and more than a quarter of them will be hospitalized, a new study has found.

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 ...

Drug rash with eosinophilia and systemic symptoms, or DRESS syndrome, is a severe hypersensitivity reaction to certain medications. Symptoms of the condition include skin eruption, fever, hematologic ...

The choice of the dose of an anticancer drug is established in first-in-human, dose-escalation, phase 1 clinical trials involving patients with cancer for whom standard-of-care treatments are often no ...

For decades, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's adverse events system has been the primary surveillance tool for monitoring potential side effects caused by drugs after they get on the market.