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Drug Safety Update: Volume 1, Issue 4, November 2007

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Type: Publication
Series No: Volume 1, Issue 4
Audience: Healthcare professionals
Published: November 2007
Format: Electronic only
Size: A4
Pages: 11
Price: Free
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Author: MHRA
Copyright: Crown
   

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In this issue:

Drug safety advice

  • Fibrates: new prescribing advice
  • Lumiracoxib: hepatotoxicity
  • Ceftriaxone: incompatibility with calcium-containing solutions
  • Codeine: very rare risk of side-effects in breastfed babies
  • St John’s wort: interactions with all antiepileptics

Yellow Card scheme update

  • please report suspected reactions with herbal medicines

Hot topics

  • Illegal herbal remedies that contain Aristolochia: vigilance needed
  • Nasal decongestants that contain pseudoephedrine or ephedrine: sales restrictions

Stop Press

  • Moxifloxacin: hepatotoxicity and serious skin reactions—prescribing update
  • Co-proxamol withdrawal: reminder to prescribers
  • Ecoflac infusion solutions: risk of air embolism

Other information from the MHRA

  • Optometrists: independent prescribing
  • Patient Information Leaflets: improving quality
  • MHRA conference: ‘Combating Counterfeit Medicines’

Page last modified: 05 November 2007