Articles tagged as 'covid-19'

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Reflecting on the lessons of a past pandemic – A career comes full circle
At the end of an eventful career, UMC’s retiring chief medical officer, reflects on how the lessons of the H1N1 pandemic helped prepare the pharmacovigilance world for COVID-19.

Ruminations on the future of pharmacovigilance – new podcast out now
After the pandemic: what were the lessons learnt for pharmacovigilance? Find out in the latest episode of the Drug Safety Matters podcast.

Optimising COVID-19 vaccine safety surveillance in the Netherlands
By utilising automated web reporting and a triage sorting system, the pharmacovigilance centre Lareb enabled near real-time processing of over 200 000 COVID-19 vaccine AEFI reports

COVID-19 top priority for research team
Check in with UMC’s head of pharmacovigilance science to catch up with her team’s current research priorities.

Pharmacovigilance in the time of a COVID-19 pandemic
The rapid creation and deployment of the COVID-19 vaccine was met head on with equally rapid improvements to medicine safety surveillance systems to effectively monitor them.

COVID-19 vaccine safety monitoring: How Saudi Arabia rose to the occasion
The challenges of the global COVID-19 immunisation effort had the pharmacovigilance team in Saudi Arabia develop some innovative tactics to ensure vaccine safety for its citizens.

Into the infodemic: Countering COVID's medicine myths
As the COVID-19 pandemic spread around the world, so did wave of viral misinformation. For pharmacovigilance, fighting the “infodemic” is a massive, but necessary, battle.

New film goes behind the scenes of UMC’s pandemic operations
A new short film captures UMC's work to support the pharmacovigilance community as it prepares to take on COVID-19. Filmmaker Matthew Barwick explains the thinking behind it.

Pharmacovigilance puts down roots in Lebanon
Lebanon implemented its pharmacovigilance system and boosted safety reporting all while dealing with the effects of COVID-19. A glance at the 143rd country in the global programme.

Unmasking data in the COVID-19 vaccine era – New podcast episode
What are the implications for signal detection when new approaches to reporting create greater data streams than have ever been present for older medicinal products?