Clinical study of cutaneous drug eruptions in 200 patients

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology;  July 1, 2008 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Cutaneous drug reactions have become very common in recent times. The incidence of cutaneous drug reactions is about 2.2% and is reported...sinusitis or headache?" Cutaneous drug reactions are the most common adverse...

Breast-feeding may protect against cutaneous drug reactions.(Clinical...

Pediatric News;  April 1, 2005 ;     309 words ......A prospective study of cutaneous drug reactions in hospitalized children...on the epidemiology of cutaneous drug reactions in the pediatric population...study collected cases of cutaneous drug reactions that occurred in Sainte-Justi...

Breast-feeding may protect against drug reactions.(Obstetrics)

OB GYN News;  October 15, 2004 ;     306 words ......A prospective study of cutaneous drug reactions in hospitalized children...on the epidemiology of cutaneous drug reactions in the pediatric population...study collected cases of cutaneous drug reactions that occurred in Sainte-Justi...

Risk levels differentiate drug reactions

Dermatology Times;  April 1, 2002 ;     666 words ......Determining the relative risk of a cutaneous drug reaction pattern is vital...category, and the type of drug reactions dealt with most are idiosyncratic...for the vast majority of cutaneous drug reactions, he said dermatologists should...

Adverse cutaneous drug reactions: Clinical pattern and causative agents in...

Indian Journal of Dermatology, Venereology and Leprology;  January 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ...Introduction Adverse cutaneous drug reactions (ACDRs) are responsible for...consecutive patients with adverse cutaneous drug reactions were recruited for...mean age of our patients with cutaneous drug eruptions was 37.06 years...

Adverse drug reactions: types and treatment options.

American Family Physician;  November 1, 2003 ;     700+ words ...Adverse drug reactions are common. Identifying true drug...challenging. Complicating factors of drug reactions include the myriad clinical symptoms...are often used interchangeably. Drug reactions encompass all adverse events related...to a reaction mediated by IgE. Drug ...

Fed: Adverse drug reactions on rise among the elderly: study

AAP General News (Australia);  March 20, 2005 ;     377 words ......Australia) 03-20-2005 Fed: Adverse drug reactions on rise among the elderly: study By...Correspondent BRISBANE, March 20 AAP - Adverse drug reactions in the elderly are on the rise, research...Australian hospitals found adverse drug reactions increased fivefold between 1981 and...

Deadly consequences: study shows adverse drug reactions take high toll.

Modern Healthcare;  April 20, 1998 ;     648 words ......of a study last week showing adverse drug reactions cause more deaths than was previously...conservative the estimates are, adverse drug reactions could be the fourth-leading cause of...delivery system, the rate of adverse drug reactions has remained constant over the 30-year...

Drug reactions killing an estimated 100,000 Study of hospitals finds side...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 15, 1998 ;     670 words ......adverse reactions to medication, making drug reactions one of the leading causes of death...by patients in using them. Rather, drug reactions occur because virtually all medications...though, because deaths from adverse drug reactions often go unrecognized. Even when the...

DRUG REACTIONS KILL MORE THAN 100,000 A YEAR, STUDY SAYS

The Columbian;  April 15, 1998 ;     418 words ......patients from 1966 to 1996. Serious drug reactions affected 6.7 percent of patients overall and fatal drug reactions 0.32 percent, the authors reported...authors said. They found adverse drug reactions ranked between fourth and sixth...

Drug reactions kill more than 100,000 a year, study estimates

AP Online;  April 14, 1998 ;     696 words ......patients from 1966 to 1996. Serious drug reactions affected 6.7 percent of patients overall and fatal drug reactions 0.32 percent, the authors reported...authors said. They found adverse drug reactions ranked between fourth and sixth...

Hospitals seek ways to cut adverse drug reactions.

Chicago Tribune (Chicago, IL);  April 13, 2005 ;     700+ words ......one of the biggest sources of adverse drug reactions _ hospital medication errors that have...threatening episodes. Such adverse drug reactions are a problem that plagues all of America...alerts every day warning of possible drug reactions from the nearly 4,000 prescriptions...

Call for probe into adverse drug reactions

Evening News - Scotland;  June 1, 2006 ;     205 words ......being admitted to hospital for adverse drug reactions. Figures obtained by SNP health spokeswoman...to hospital in the area for adverse drug reactions, but by last year the number had risen...numbers admitted to hospital for adverse drug reactions increased by 50 per cent from 4123...

Davies's textbook of adverse drug reactions

Indian Journal of Medical Research;  May 1, 2000 ;     596 words ...Davies's textbook of adverse drug reactions, 5th ed., D.M. Davies, R.E...Davies's textbook of adverse drug reactions has been acclaimed as the...account published on adverse drug reactions (ADRs). It occupies a very...

Healthcare Professionals Need to do More to Indentify Adverse Drug...

PR Newswire Europe;  May 12, 2006 ;     206 words ......Association's new report Reporting Adverse Drug Reactions: A guide for healthcare professionals...more could be done to identify adverse drug reactions. Hemant Patel, President, RPSGB, said...more efforts to identifying adverse drug reactions before they result in a patient being...