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Drug Safety

Drug safety, also termed pharmacovigilance, is the science and set of activities concerned with the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects and other drug-related problems across the lifecycle of a pharmaceutical product. It spans preclinical toxicology, controlled clinical trials, an…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 10 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 42× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2328-0182 🗓 Reviewed July 2026

Overview

Drug safety, also termed pharmacovigilance, is the science and set of activities concerned with the detection, assessment, understanding, and prevention of adverse effects and other drug-related problems across the lifecycle of a pharmaceutical product. It spans preclinical toxicology, controlled clinical trials, and post-marketing surveillance, with the goal of characterising a medicine's benefit-risk balance under real conditions of use. Core mechanisms include systematic toxicity evaluation, in vitro disease and cardiotoxicity models that flag organ-level liability before human exposure, computational and systems-biology approaches that predict hazard, and structured reporting of adverse drug events. A persistent methodological challenge is the standardisation, codification, and accurate definition of adverse drug events, since inconsistent documentation and mapping weaken signal detection across health systems. Related sub-areas covered in this literature include preclinical screening of candidate compounds, immunological strategies for developing safer therapeutic agents, the safety implications of self-medication and improper drug storage in community settings, and the rationale for rigorous clinical testing of new drugs, treatments, and devices before market authorisation. Together these strands frame drug safety as an evidence-driven discipline integrating laboratory, clinical, and epidemiological methods to protect patients and improve therapeutic outcomes.

Research published in this journal

10 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 10 articles above have been cited 42 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

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Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Advanced Pharmaceutical Science And Technology (ISSN 2328-0182).

Journal editorial board
natalia malara · Italy Saba Khalilpour · Italy Haseeb Khan · United States

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