Okay kiddo, the Boston Collaborative Drug Surveillance Program is a group of fancy doctors and smart researchers who work together to learn more about the medicines people take.
You know how you sometimes get sick and your parents take you to the doctor, who then gives you a medicine that makes you feel better? That's what the doctors in the program study – how well these medicines work and if they make people sick or not.
They watch and collect information from lots of people taking different medicines to make sure everything is safe and effective. It's kind of like a big game of detective, where they try to spot any problems that might happen after someone takes a medicine.
The doctors in this program want everyone to feel better when they're sick, so they work really hard to find out important information about medicines. They're like big helpers who want to make sure we're always happy and healthy.