Britain’s Medicines and
Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency (MHRA) has released a
21st century version of the original
Yellow Card system devised
following the 1964 thalidomide
medical debacle, intended as an
early warning system to identify
drug side effects and adverse
events.
MHRA collates and reviews
reports of suspected adverse
drug reactions on all licensed and
unlicensed medicines and vaccines,
prescription, OTC and supermarket.
The new Yellow Card smartphone
app supplements an existing
website and is the only app
that allows patients, carers and
healthcare professionals to report
side effects directly to the Yellow
Card Scheme to help MHRA
continually evaluate products.
The app operates on both the
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