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Dealing with safety; the importance of pharmacovigilance

Pharmacovigilance in ItalyAt the turn of the '50s and '60s between 10,000 and 20,000 children were born with severe deformities due to the assumption by pregnant women of a thalidomide-based drug. This is the most prominent case of a side effect of medication. Thalidomide was tested in a hurried and hasty manner, and the case caused such a backlash that the already existing FDA received an award from President Kennedy for blocking the sale of the drug and requested that other studies be carried out.

Fortunately the case of thalidomide was the last far-reaching of its kind thanks to the establishment of pharmacovigilance, a term which encompasses all activities aimed at monitoring the impact of a drug on consumers after it has been placed on the market.

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