Side Effects of Drugs Annual: A Worldwide Yearly Survey of New Data and Trends in Adverse Drug Reactions

by Jeffrey K. Aronson MA DPhil MBChB FRCP FBPharmacolS FFPM(Hon) (Editor)

Overview

The Side Effects of Drugs Annual was first published in 1977. It has been continually published since then, as a yearly update to the voluminous encyclopedia Meyler's Side Effects of Drugs. Each new Annual continues to provide clinicians and medical investigators with a reliable and critical yearly survey of new data and trends in the area of Adverse Drug Reactions and Interactions. An international team of specialists has contributed to the informative, by critically interpreting it, and by pointing to whatever is misleading.

• Provides a critical yearly survey of new data and trends
• Special reviews in this Annual include, among other topics, Epidemiology of the use of ecstasy, Paracetamol and the risk of asthma, Combination vaccines/multiple immunizations, Interactions of herbal medicines with warfarin, and Tyrosine kinase inhibitors

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780444535511
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/18/2010
Series:	ISSN , #32
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	1056
File size:	17 MB
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About the Author

Dr Jeffrey K. Aronson is a consultant clinical pharmacologist and physician in the Department of Primary Health Care in the University of Oxford and a consultant physician in the Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals Trust. He has been associated with the Meyler series since 1977 and has published many research papers on adverse drug reactions. He is President of the British Pharmacological Society and serves on many committees concerned with drug therapy, including the Technology Appraisal Committee of the UK’s National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) and the Joint Formulary Committees of the British National Formulary and the British National Formulary for Children.

Table of Contents

1. Central nervous system stimulants and drugs that suppress appetite
2. Antidepressant drugs
3. Lithium
4. Drugs of abuse
5. Hypnosedatives and anxiolytics
6. Antipsychotic drugs
7. Antiepileptic drugs
8. Opioid analgesics and narcotic antagonists
9. Anti-inflammatory and antipyretic analgesics and drugs used in gout
10. General anesthetics and therapeutic gases
11. Local anesthetics
12. Neuromuscular blocking agents and skeletal muscle relaxants
13. Drugs that affect autonomic functions or the extrapyramidal system
14. Dermatological drugs, topical agents and cosmetics
15. Antihistamines (H1 receptor antagonists)
16. Drugs that act on the respiratory tract
17. Positive inotropic drugs and drugs used in dysrhythmias
18. Beta-adrenoceptor antagonists and antianginal drugs
19. Drugs acting on the cerebral and peripheral circulations
20. Antihypertensive drugs
21. Diuretics
22. Metals
23. Metal antagonists
24. Antiseptic drugs and disinfectants
25. Penicillins, cephalosporins, other beta-lactam antibiotics, and tetracyclines
26. Miscellaneous antibacterial drugs
27. Antifungal drugs
28. Antiprotozoal Drugs
29. Antiviral drugs
30. Drugs used in tuberculosis and leprosy
31. Antihelminthic drugs
32. Vaccines
33. Blood, blood components, plasma and plasma products
34. Vitamins, intravenous solutions, and drugs and formulations used in nutrition
35. Drugs affecting blood coagulation, fibrinolysis, and hemostasis
36. Gastrointestinal drugs
37. Drugs that act on the immune system: cytokines and monoclonal antibodies
38. Drugs that act on the immune system: immunosuppressive and immunostimulatory drugs
39. Corticotrophins, corticosteroids, and prostaglandins
40. Sex hormones and related compounds, including hormonal contraceptives
41. Thyroid hormones, iodine, and antithyroid drugs
42. Insulin, other hypoglycemic drugs, and glucagon
43. Miscellaneous hormones
44. Drugs that affect lipid metabolism
45. Cytostatic and cytotoxic drugs
46. Radiological contrast agents
47. Drugs used in ocular treatment
48. Treatments used in complementary and alternative medicine
49. Miscellaneous drugs, materials, medical devices and techniques
50. Medication errors