What is Pharmacovigilance?<\/strong><\/p>\n Pharmacovigilance <\/strong>is the discipline that studies the adverse events potentially associated with pharmacological treatment, in order to evaluate the incidence and identify the relative causality relationship.<\/p>\n In line with this general definition, the objectives underlying pharmacovigilance<\/a>, in accordance with current European legislation, are:<\/p>\n \u2022 prevent damage caused by adverse reactions resulting from the use of a medicine according to the authorization conditions;<\/p>\n \u2022 promote the safe and effective use of medicinal products, in particular by providing timely information on the safety of medicines to patients, healthcare professionals and the general public.<\/p>\n What is an adverse reaction?<\/strong><\/p>\n An adverse reaction is any harmful and unwanted event – sign, symptom or disease – that occurs in a subject \/ patient who has been given a medicine.<\/p>\n How to report<\/strong>\u00a0an adverse reaction<\/strong>?<\/strong><\/p>\n Promptly report the adverse reaction, occurred to you or the person for whom you intend to report, to your doctor or other healthcare professional.<\/p>\n It is possible to report an adverse reaction by following the instructions on the site of the Health Authority (AIFA, Italian Medicines Agency), at the following page http:\/\/www.aifa.gov.it\/en\/content\/reporting-adverse-reaction<\/a>.<\/p>\n If you have taken a drug produced by ITEL and want to report an adverse reaction, you can write an email to itel@itelte.it<\/a>, inserting the object ” SEGNALAZIONE PV ” providing the following information:<\/p>\n \u2022 Subject \/ patient who has had the\u00a0<\/strong>adverse reaction<\/strong>: initials of name and surname, gender, age, city of residence;<\/p>\n \u2022 Drug<\/strong>: name of the drug administered;<\/p>\n \u2022\u00a0Adverse reaction<\/strong>: description of the effect;<\/p>\n \u2022 Reporter<\/strong>: name and surname of the person reporting, email or other address, profession.<\/p>\n and attaching the consent form according to the privacy policy downloadable from this link<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<\/div>