Personalized Patient-driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program

iguardiGuard is one of the first web-based services that allows you to get free personalized safety alerts and updates about your medications. The company claims that [1]:

… patients can feel safer because they will be sent the drug safety information they need, when they need it.

After enrollment, patients who regularly take medications can choose to receive patient-specific updates regarding the safety of their medications. Participants in iGuard will receive these updates whenever new information is learned about their medicines, allowing them to make the most informed decisions about their healthcare.

Consortium to Identify Genetic Markers that Predict Drug-related Serious Adverse Events

The International Serious Adverse Events Consortium (SAEC) officially announced its formation this morning. The new global, non-profit partnership between leading pharmaceutical companies, pharmacogeneticsthe U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and academic institutions plans to identify and validate genetic markers that may help predict which individuals are at risk for serious adverse drug events. The goal of the consortium is to publish a set of predictive SNPs for all drug-related serious adverse events (SAEs), reducing significant patient and economic costs as well as improving the flow of safe and effective medical advances by addressing safety issues of new drugs before they reach the market.