Advances in  Drug Safety is a peer-reviewed open access journal focusing on studies pertaining to rare adverse drug reactions, drug efficacy evaluations, drug interaction quantifications, patterns of drug usage, herbal medicines, randomized control trials, case control studies, cross-sectional studies, case cross over studies and cohort studies.The journal also serves as a compendium of knowledge in pharmacoepidemiology and drug safety which can be readily accessed by physicians, surgeons, medical scientists, public health professionals, medical students, clinicians, lab researchers, academicians and industry for keeping themselves updated and also to formulate further research programs.The journal regularly publishes reports covering wide range of topics which include new challenges of over drug use, insufficient use and inappropriate use of drugs; Pharmacoepidemiology; improvements in molecular biology techniques and identification of the genetic determinants of drug effects.