Categories: Disambiguation An adverse drug reaction (abbreviated ADR) is a term to describe the unwanted, negative consequences sometimes associated with the use of medications. ... A therapeutic effect is a consequence of a medical treatment, of any kind, the results of which are judged to be desirable and beneficial. ... Adverse effect, in medicine, is an abnormal, harmful, undesired and/or unintended side-effect, although not necessarily unexpected, which is obtained as the result of a therapy or other medical intervention, such as drug/chemotherapy, physical therapy, surgery, medical procedure, use of a medical device, etc. ... Unintended consequences can be either positive, in which case we get serendipity or windfalls source of problems, according to the Murphys law definitively negative: perverse effect, which is the opposite result to the one intended The Law of Unintended Consequences holds that almost all human actions have at least... In computer science, a function is said to produce a side effect if it modifies some state other than its return value. ... A side-effect is any effect other than an intended primary effect. ... The Side Effects were a indie rock band, part of the music scene of Athens, Georgia. ...