How should we react to adverse drug reactions?

摘要

Terry Herbert was sweeping a field in Staffordshire with his metal detector in July 2009 when he stumbled on a horde of hundreds of Anglo-Saxon gold and silver ornaments, richer than any discovered since the Second World War. He said it 'was what metal detectorists dream of.' Detectorist is a useful neologism. It might be applied to the scientists who scan the fields of spontaneous reports of suspected adverse drug reactions, such as the UK Yellow Card reports, in the search for signs of possibly unknown reactions.