[Clinical pharmacy and pharmacovigilance over a period of nine years in hospital].

Introduction: Underreporting is the main limit in any pharmacovigilance system relying on spontaneous notification. Available data emphasize that pharmacists report few adverse drug reactions (ADRs) in France.

Objective: To report how the integration of pharmacists in health care units contributes to reporting of ADRs and to study the validity of the reports.

[Compensatory hyperfunction in living kidney donors].

Renal transplantation using living donors still remains of interest, given the shortage of cadaveric donors. Using reference methods for measuring kidney function, we studied the adaptation to nephrectomy in 99 living donors. The glomerular filtration rate and renal plasma flow showed long lasting increase (by 40 and 33% respectively).

The hazards of chloroquine self prescription in west Africa.

We report a severe accidental chloroquine poisoning in a West African adult. This intoxication results from the widespread practice in Senegal of taking mild doses of chloroquine for a few days (i.e.