EU RESEARCHERS DEVELOP EARLY WARNING SYSTEM FOR DRUG TRIAL FAILURES
March 1st, 2008
BY KEITH NUTHALL
AN INNOVATIVE computer system is being developed by a European Union (EU)-funded research project that is designed to swiftly warn regulators about new unexpected side-effects of approved medicines. At present, clinicians are responsible for reporting such events, but this ad hoc system has meant "adverse effects of drugs may be detected too late, when millions of patients have already been exposed," claims the ALERT research consortium. Its Euro 5.9 million project will also try to identify apparent side-effects actually unlinked to a ...
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