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The research team at UMC has recently developed a novel and productive approach to detecting possible harm caused to patients by interacting drugs and other ...

The Monitoring Medicines consortium, an EU supported collaboration, will meet on 20th May 2013 during the World Health Assembly in Geneva to conclude the pro...

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre has now entered 8 million adverse drug reaction (ADR) reports from countries contributing to the WHO Global Individual Case Saf...

With 19.200 SEK collected for child cancer research UMC in collaboration with Lindahls, Actic and Matador organized a spinning event on March 9, 2013 with gr...

With the aim of collecting 30.000 SEK to child cancer research UMC in collaboration with Lindahls, Actic and Matador will organize a spinning event on March ...

The UMC is this month welcoming two new medical doctors to the team: Pia Caduff-Janosa and Geraldine Hill. Both have considerable experience in the field of ...

The UMC office will be effectively closed from 24 December until 1 January ...

The UMC pharmacovigilance training course, 20 May to 4 June, 2013 in Uppsala, Sweden is now announced. 

WHO is organizing its 15th International Conference of Drug Regulatory Authorities (ICDRA) in Tallin, Estonia, 23 – 26 October 2012.

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre will be present at the centennial FIP (International Pharmaceutical Federation) conference in Amsterdam later this week (4-7 Oc...

The UMC will be present at the 28th International Conference on Pharmacoepidemiology & Therapeutic Risk Management to be held from 23-26 August 2012 in B...

An important side-event at the 65th World Health Assembly (Geneva, 21-26 May 2012) reported on progress in a project encouraging direct reporting from patien...

Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s Research Conference 2012 addressed the fascinating and vital topic of causality assessment by dissecting case reports, obse...

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre, (the WHO Collaborating Centre for International Drug Monitoring) will run its fourteenth international pharmacovigilance train...

'Safety Monitoring of Medicinal Products – Reporting system for the general public' has just been published by WHO.

UMC’s Research department is seeking a pharmacovigilance researcher for research activities on globally collected suspected adverse drug reaction repor...

An important step in making UMC drug safety signals publicly available, and reach a wider audience, will be taken in early 2012 when for the first time ...

The UMC was awarded the 'Best Paper' prize at the recent ACM SIGHIT International Health Informatics Symposium 2012, in Miami, USA, for Robust Discovery of L...

The World Health Organization has taken a giant stride towards helping all countries improve drug safety monitoring by launching a freely accessible web-based pharmacovigilance toolkit.

A new opportunity at Uppsala University

The Uppsala Monitoring Centre’s vision is to improve worldwide patient safety – and one fifth of the world’s population is living in China....