iGuard drug alerts
Executive Summary
The drug safety notification service iGuard attracted about 10,000 participants in the Web site's first 50 days, founder Hugo Stephenson says. The tool alerts participants of recalls and safety alerts for their prescriptions and assigns a personal risk rating for drugs based on patient-provided information. Stephenson hopes the service will in return produce data from patient-reported feedback, and he hopes to publish research regarding patient use of oral contraceptives and ACE inhibitors early next year...