Drug Safety Update: Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2009

In this issue

Drug safety advice

• Ceftriaxone: incompatibility with calcium-containing solutions—updated advice
• High-dose cyproterone acetate: potential risk of (multiple) meningiomas
  
  Yellow Card Scheme update
  
• Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme—first year safety review

Hot topics

• Smoking and smoking cessation: clinically significant interactions with commonly used medicines
• Aspirin: not licensed for primary prevention of thrombotic vascular disease

Stop press

• Varenicline and suicidal behaviour: cohort study provides some reassurance

Other information from the MHRA

• Patient Information Leaflet of the month: medicines used in tuberculosis