Dermatologic immune-related adverse events (irAEs) are one of many side effects of immunotherapy that can significantly affect patients’ quality of life and treatment success. New research is shedding ...

The FDA has launched a new adverse event reporting system that will consolidate several systems it has for reporting different types of adverse events, the agency announced Wednesday. The new system, ...

The US Food and Drug Administration receives about 5,000 reports each year about health problems related to the use of cosmetic products, and under a new law, the agency has issued updated ...

Almost one in seven or 13.5 percent of Medicare patients encounter an adverse event, with another 13.5 percent experiencing temporary harm, according to a report from the HHS Office of Inspector ...

Nearly a quarter of stays among an 11-hospital sample of roughly 2,800 admissions included at least one adverse event, and about 7% of admissions included an adverse event that could have been ...

Discovery of immune checkpoint inhibitors has revolutionized the therapeutic landscape for the treatment of cancer. Development of immunotherapy for cancer is based on modulation of T cell function ...

New data from The Joint Commission found that of all reported sentinel events in 2022, 44 percent resulted in severe temporary harm and 20 percent resulted in a patient death. The Joint Commission ...

Clear vials of medicine with blue caps Researchers say they have identified adverse events that are more likely to occur in cancer patients receiving antibody-drug conjugates. Treatment with ...

Your dental practice uses a range of devices every day but do you consider that some of them come with the slight risk of accidents or injury? A new study in the Journal of the American Dental ...

Purpose: To assess outcomes between two groups of patients receiving ketamine for procedural sedations in our pediatric emergency department. Our hypothesis is that there is no difference in the ...

Nearly 25% of hospital admissions included at least one adverse event, as indicated from data from 2809 admissions at 11 hospitals. The 1991 Harvard Medical Practice Study (HMPS), which focused on ...