iGuard: Live Webcast Now October 4, 2007

The webcast of Patient-Driven Drug Safety Monitoring Program is going live now. It features Dr. Judith Jones and Dr. Hugo Stephenson who explain how simple it can now be for anyone to better assess the level of risks associated with the drugs they are taking or prescribing. It means the webcast is open to physicians and patients as well. You can ask questions from now via e-mail.

What is iGuard about?

iGuard is the fastest and easiest way for you to get personalized alerts and updates on the safety of your medicines. We facilitate the virtual flow of communication among patients, physicians, and researchers according to two guiding principles:

• With iGuard, patients can feel safer because they will be sent the drug safety information they need, when they need it.
• The more people that join iGuard, the faster we can help researchers identify safety problems – and communicate this information back to patients, caregivers, and their providers.

Through a quick online enrollment on the iGuard website (www.iguard.org), patients who regularly take medications can choose to receive patient-specific updates about the safety of the medications they are taking from an independent source. And participants in iGuard will receive these updates whenever new information is learned about their medicine, allowing them to make the most informed decisions about their healthcare.