Articles by Elie Magdalani

Pharmacology is the study of the effects of drugs. The other interesting branch known as the “clinical pharmacology” is interested in the effects of drugs in humans by which therapy is individualised according to the needs of each patient (based on the nature of his disease and its severity). The epidemiology is study of distribution and determinants of diseases in populations....Full Article »

What is a medication error? The National Coordinating Council for Medication Error Reporting and Prevention (NCC MERP) defines a "medication error" as follows: "A medication error is any preventable event that may cause or lead to inappropriate medication use or patient harm while the medication is in the control of the health care professional, patient, or consumer. Such events...Full Article »

Reported adverse events are an important tool for implementing a risk management program. An important contributing factor in the evolved AEs the condition of chronically ill patients taking a drug daily over the course of many years. Another factor the large number of patients taking multiple prescriptions’ drugs all together, increasing the potential for drug-drug interactions. Its worth...Full Article »

Pharmacovigilance is a proactive monitoring and reporting on the quality, safety and efficacy of drugs. The main benefit is to assess any risks and to report benefits of the marketed medicines. In addition, it is important to provide the consumers (patients), the HCPs and regulatory authorities with real data on the products which appears only after its use on a large number of patients in the...Full Article »

“To undergo treatment you have to be very healthy, because apart from your sickness you have to withstand the medicine”. Molière (French Dramatist, 1622-1673) Although Molière was not a health care professional, but he understood very well that healthy and sickness status are too near from each others to cross from healthy to a sick person. Withstanding the medicine by...Full Article »