{"id":672602,"date":"2026-11-02T11:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672602\/"},"modified":"2026-11-02T11:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-02T11:26:09","slug":"public-urged-to-report-side-effects-of-medicines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/672602\/","title":{"rendered":"Public urged to report side effects of medicines"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>People taking medicines are being urged to watch out for side effects and report them to the Health Products Regulatory Authority.<\/p>\n<p>The appeal comes at the start of a global medicines safety campaign involving 120 countries.<\/p>\n<p>The HPRA received more than eight and a half thousand reports of suspected side effects last year.<\/p>\n<p>Its Medicines Safety Manager, Dr Darren Scully says people should be particularly vigilant when starting a new medication\u2026<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/scully.wav\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.midwestradio.ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/11\/scully.wav<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"People taking medicines are being urged to watch out for side effects and report them to the Health&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":672603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[103,61,60,371],"class_list":["post-672602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-medication","tag-health","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-medication"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=672602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/672602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/672603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=672602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=672602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=672602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}