Group work -meaning and definitions- Characteristics and Importance
Post Marketing Surveillance, Variations & Vigilance in Pharmaceuticals - Part 1
1. Post Marketing
in Pharmaceuticals (Part - 1)
Obaid Ali & Roohi B. Obaid
105-CCK Forum at Regent Plaza, Karachi, 08 March 2020
Surveillance VigilanceVariations
11. Behavior & mood
related changes
Approved for Asthma
Popular Drug
1998
2020
Suicidal ThoughtsMontelukast
12. A widely used class of Antibiotics
Fluoroquinolones
Ciprofloxacin, Ofloxacin,
Moxifloxacin, Norfloxacin,
Levofloxacin etc.
13. Fluoroquinolones
July 2008
Tendinitis &
Tendon
Rupture
Aug 2013
Peripheral
Neuropathy
May 2016
Restricted
use for
certain
uncomplicat
ed infections
July 2016
Disabling
side effects
of tendons,
muscles,
joints,
nerves &
CNS
July 2018
Decrease in
blood sugar
& certain
mental
health side
effects
17. I've been on Wellbutrin for
several years and things were
fine and dandy, but once I was
switched I started
experiencing headaches,
anxiety, depression and
sleeplessness',
People who had never
been suicidal were all of a
sudden reporting suicidal
thoughts.
Which drug we
are talking
about?
2012
26. • Mix up
• Child resistant caps
• Less quantity
• Wrong label
• Discoloration
• Chipping
• Broken edges
• Empty pockets in blister
• Sticking
• Material release from within the tablet
etc.
Quality Issues: Tablets
27. • Caps locking problem
• Disintegration
• Dissolution
• Uniformity of weight
• Content uniformity
Quality Issues: Capsules
32. • Label color
• Shape of secondary packaging
Quality Issues: Cosmetic
33. Complaints, GMP Violations,
Published Studies, Returned or
Recalled Goods, Potent Products,
First Generics
4000 drugs in
10 years
1.1%
found deviated