4 October 2007
Consumers concerned with the safety of their medicines will be benefited by the launch of a new website today.
Patients whose confidence has been erased due to recent drug scares can now consult a colour coded risk rating on www.iguard.org. The system is very similar to the traffic light warnings on food items in the UK. Green indicates that a drug is suitable for widespread use, whilst red highlights high risk.
The new venture is the brainchild of Dr Hugo Stephenson, until recently president of the strategic research and drug safety division of Quintiles Transnational, a firm that provides clinical research services to the drug industry.
Dr Stephenson said:
One of the challenges is that people have been looking at drug safety from the perspective of the organisations and the industry, and we didn't feel that people were asking the consumer what they thought of drug safety.
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