Adverse drug events are more common in older people with comorbidities, a new study finds. Factors that are independently linked with adverse drug events are being female, taking more drugs daily, ...

Drug executives say only their GLP-1 drugs are safe for treating obesity and diabetes as they wage a year-long campaign to ...

The number of medications prescribed to a patient and patient age could be possible risk factors for adverse drug events, according to research published in Health Services Research. For their study, ...

Researchers used a prototype reporting system designed by investigators from the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University School of Medicine to study causes of medication errors and adverse drug ...

In this study, 3 main themes were identified through patient interviews: perceived relationship with their clinicians, perceived severity of adverse medication events, and patient activation in ...

A new study explored the correlation between older, hospitalized women and adverse drug reactions. When hospitalized, 28% of women experienced one or more adverse drug reactions compared to 21% of men ...

If four full 737s were crashing daily resulting in total loss of life, there would be a public outcry and immediate governmental intervention. Yet, we lose an equivalent number of people daily — ...

A new study out this week in the journal Social Science and Medicine proposes that social, gendered variables may better explain observed sex disparities in adverse drug events than sex-based biology.

A decades-old warning rooted in flawed research kept millions of women from life-changing treatment, officials say.

Commonly prescribed heart medications, including statins and diuretics, do not negatively affect the survival of ...