Drug Safety Matters

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#47 Viewing global pharmacovigilance through the local lens – Salvador Alvarado & Matthew Barwick

Send us a voicemail!Global pharmacovigilance requires harmonised methods, but solutions must be tailored to the local context. We sat down with Salvador Alvarado and Matthew Barwick from Uppsala Monitoring Centre to explore how local constraints affect drug safety and how a new f ... Show more

. 39min 21sec

#46 Protecting the health ecosystem – Valentina Giunchi & Joe Mitchell

Send us a voicemail!Pharmacovigilance has traditionally focused on the patient at the receiving end of a medicine. But what happens to medicines once they leave the body? In this episode, Valentina Giunchi and Joe Mitchell unpack the emerging field of ecopharmacovigilance and exp ... Show more

. 34min 25sec

#45 How to perform better disproportionality analyses – Michele Fusaroli & Eugene van Puijenbroek

Send us a voicemail!For all its ease and speed, disproportionality analysis can be distorted by many biases, making it easy to misuse and misinterpret. Michele Fusaroli from Uppsala Monitoring Centre and Eugene van Puijenbroek from the Netherlands pharmacovigilance centre Lareb e ... Show more

. 46min 41sec

#44 Rethinking medical device safety, part 2 – Omar Aimer

Send us a voicemail!Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can put patients at risk. In this two-part episode, Omar Aimer, President of ISoP and former co-lead o ... Show more

. 20min 43sec

#43 Rethinking medical device safety, part 1 – Omar Aimer

Send us a voicemail!Medical device pharmacovigilance is complicated. Alongside clinical safety, there are technology risks, from cybersecurity threats to outdated software, that can leave patients vulnerable. In this two-part episode, Omar Aimer, president of ISoP and former co-l ... Show more

. 22min 4sec