Drug safety advice
- Implanon contraceptive implant: changing to Nexplanon
Yellow Card Scheme update
- Seasonal flu vaccines in children: prompt reporting of febrile seizures requested
Hot topics
- Pandemic vaccines and antivirals: safety review
- Human papillomavirus immunisation programme: second year safety review
- Codeine-containing liquid over-the-counter medicines: should not be used for cough under 18 years
Stop press
- Rosiglitazone: recommended withdrawal from clinical use
- Octagam intravenous immunoglobulin 5% and 10%: recall due to thromboembolic events
- Mercaptamine and mercaptopurine: confusion between drug names
Other information from the MHRA
- Patient Information Leaflet of the month: Nexplanon
Drug Safety Update: Volume 4, Issue 3, October 2010 
