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Pharmacovigilance
? TBD
Drug safety; subdiscipline of pharmacy relating to prevention of adverse effects of drugs

Pharmacovigilance (PV, or PhV), also known as drug safety, is the pharmaceutical science relating to the "collection, detection, assessment, monitoring, and prevention" of adverse effects with pharmaceutical products.:โ€Š7โ€Š The etymological roots for the word "pharmacovigilance" are: pharmakon (Greek for drug) and vigilare (Latin for to keep...