News Releases

Editorial Note: The photograph is of Matt Hancock, England’s Health Secretary. The photograph below is of Guido Rasi, the director of EMA. The title echoes a famous British TV program – Hancock’s Half Hour, which over 50 years ago was must watch comedy on the BBC.  This letter was emailed and posted yesterday. There is […]

After months of thought and effort, we are pleased to introduce RxISK 2.0 to replace the website we launched in 2012. Our goal was to make RxISK easier-to-use, friendlier, and to remove the requirement to log in for certain functionality. We freshened up our RxISK logo and tagline and added new tools and resources, such as: Drugs A-Z list […]

TORONTO, ON — April 29, 2014 – Marketing CoPilot® Inc., a leader in Canada for digital marketing strategy and execution, has received the 2013 All Star Award from Constant Contact® Inc., the trusted marketing advisor to more than half a million small organizations worldwide. Each year, Constant Contact bestows the All Star Award to a […]

Team RxISK takes first big step in England: Get involved With millions of people throughout the world participating in sporting events to raise money for many different causes, who would ever think that prescription drug safety could become a cause worth supporting? Katinka Newman did. Katinka Newman As the first fundraiser in the world for […]

News Release New fundraising initiative launches this weekend in Hastings to highlight deadly anti-depressant drug side effects A new fundraising initiative is launching on Sunday March 23, 2014 to raise awareness of the potentially deadly side effects of anti-depressant drugs. RxISK.org is the first organisation of its kind to gather and disseminate information on the side […]

Toronto, Ontario — September 26, 2013 – RxISK.org, the first free, independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has added to its drug safety database more than 320,000 adverse drug events reported to Health Canada from 1965 to March 31, 2013. The RxISK database now has more than 4.8 million reports of suspected adverse drug […]

Toronto, Ontario — September 13, 2013 – RxISK.org, the first free, independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has launched a drug safety petition asking two pharmaceutical giants to stop blocking the European Medicines Agency (EMA) from releasing prescription drug clinical trial data. In 2010, the EMA began releasing patient-level data from the clinical […]

No one knows a drug’s side effects like the person taking it and that’s why RxISK.org has been created to provide a place where patients can research, report, and share their stories with others. More patients are now reporting side effects to RxISK than to country regulators. News release RxISK.org, the first free independent website […]

RxISK.org, the first free independent website for researching and reporting prescription drug side effects, has established RxISK Funds in the United States, United Kingdom, and Canada. Each RxISK Fund is used to support global prescription drug safety. Receipts for US tax purposes, UK, or Canadian purposes are issued for donations. These funds have been established […]

RxISK is pleased to announce that Dr. David Healy’s latest book, Pharmageddon, was named by Maclean’s magazine as one of the best non-fiction books of 2012. “David Healy’s exposé of the pharmaceutical industry’s control of modern medicine is a chilling, essential read,” says Maclean’s on Pharmageddon. Pharmageddon was the philosophical underpinning of the RxISK.org website, […]

Editorial Note: Following a redesign of the website in 2015, the Skin Zone mentioned in this article now works differently. You can search for skin related side effects in the Drugs A-Z section. Side effects can be reported using the main “Report a Side Effect” function. Free online tool to research and report prescription drug side […]

Editorial Note: Following a redesign of the website in 2015, the Hair Zone mentioned in this article now works differently. You can search for hair related side effects in the Drugs A-Z section. Side effects can be reported using the main “Report a Side Effect” function. Bad hair day — could it be your drugs? Free […]

Free online tool empowers as it informs users about drug side effects Toronto, Ontario (November 5, 2012) — RxISK.org, the first free independent website for researching and reporting drug side effects, is now live. RxISK layers an easy-to-use interface over data from FDA’s MedWatch system, allowing users to search the 4.1 million drug side effect reports […]