Pharmacovigilance is a branch of medical science / pharmacology which primarily deals with identifying, validating, quantifying, evaluating and minimising the adverse effects of therapeutic drugs, medical or biological devices, thereby improving their safety.

   Pharmaceutical drug regulatory authorities globally such as the US FDA, EMA, MHRA, DCGI, etc., have brought in strong safety laws for the adoption of an organized pharmacovigilance network. The amount of drug side-effect data generated by clinical studies around the world is massive and this has led to the outsourcing of the pharmacovigilance and pharmacoepidemiology services by large multinational drug development companies. An increase in the number of clinical trials being conducted by local players in the pharmaceutical industry has also strengthened the pharmacovigilance job market.

   Safety and efficacy are mostly the two things to be concerned around the usage of....