Pharmacovigilance at a Glance: From Adverse Event Detection to Vaccine Safety

From drug discovery to administration of drug in human body, there is need to keep watch on the drug effect in the body. Due to wide variation in social behaviour, standard of living, gene and many more, every human won’t have same effect of drug. To ensure the safety of drug, we need to monitor it. In this article we will have brief look about pre pharmacovigilance time to current time, how to manage data related to adverse drug reactions and pharmacovigilance methods. Also, in the tough times of COVID 19, we learn that vaccine can be the biggest weapon to fight against any diseases and as most vaccines are injectables there is need to properly evaluate the adverse effects of drug. So, this article also puts light on vaccine surveillance in different countries and current international status of pharmacovigilance.