Pharmacovigilance produces valuable safety data, but is it used to its full value, and how can primary healthcare workers make more use of PV findings in diagnosis and prescribing?
Perspective / 20 April 2022
In this opinion article, Maria Mantziri and Natália Hromníková argue how contrasting examples from pharmacovigilance’s past could point to a more proactive and vital future.
Perspective / 29 June 2021
Medication errors can harm individual patients. But when errors also undermine trust in public health programmes, serious problems can ripple across entire communities.
Perspective / 25 August 2020
COVID-19 is one of the most disruptive events in history and a threat to public health. In the rush for treatments and vaccines, how do we keep sight of the need to ensure safety?
Perspective / 29 April 2020