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   Pharmacovigilance, also known as drug safety, is the pharmacological science involving to the collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention of adversative effects with pharmaceutical products. The etymological origins for the word "pharmacovigilance" are: pharmakon and vigilare. As such, pharmacovigilance heavily highlighting on adverse drug reactions, or ADRs, which are well-defined as any reaction to a drug which is noxious and unintended, including lack of efficacy (the condition that this explanation only applies with the doses normally used for the prophylaxis, diagnosis or therapy of disease, or for the modification of physiological disorder function was excepted with the latest amendment of the applicable legislation). Medication errors such as overdose, and waste and abuse of a drug as well as drug experience during pregnancy and breastfeeding, are also of interest, even without an opposing event, because they may result in an contrary drug reaction.

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