Safety guidance

Latest safety guidance publications

• 07 Jul 2008| Drug Safety Update: Volume 1, Issue 12 July 2008

  The July issue of ‘Drug Safety Update’ includes: drug safety advice for varenicline and bisphosphonates; a hot topic article on inhaled products that corticosteroids; and Stop press articles with new information for rotigotine, etoricoxib, ergots, and recombinant human erythropoietins.
  

• 01 Jul 2008| One Liners issue 59 - June 2008

  This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights problems with the use of walking aids.  We continue to receive a significant number of reports where problems have occurred and aim to advise users how to avoid these problems in the future. This information has also been issued to care homes through the Commission for Social Care Inspection (CSCI) and under issue number SC 05

• 16 Jun 2008| One Liners issue 58 - May 2008

  This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights problems with the use of medical devices.  This issue covers topics including intrathecal drug pumps leaking at their connector site, partial collapse of ambulance stretcher trolleys and cracked plastic mounting brackets on ‘trombone’ type bed rails.

• 04 Jun 2008| Drug Safety Update: Volume 1, Issue 11, June 2008

  The June issue of ‘Drug Safety Update’ includes: drug safety advice for natalizumab (a treatment for multiple sclerosis) and nicorandil (a treatment for angina); a hot topic article on ezetimibe in cholesterol management; and a Stop press article on herbal products marketed for erectile dysfunction.

• 06 May 2008| One Liners issue 57 - April 2008

  This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights problems with the use of medical devices. This issue covers topics including blood glucose meters, mechanical chest compression devices and an electrostatic breathing system filter.

• 06 May 2008| Drug Safety Update: Volume 1, Issue 10, May 2008

  The May issue of ‘Drug Safety Update’ includes: drug safety advice for rimonabant (an adjunct to diet and exercise for obese or some overweight patients) and exenatide (a first-in-class incretin mimetic for type 2 diabetes); a hot topic article on monitoring the safety of antiretroviral drugs; and a Stop press article on results from the recent D:A:D safety study for abacavir and didanosine.

• 21 Apr 2008| DB 2008(03) Guidance on the safe use of lasers, IPL systems and LEDs

  Updated guidance for devices used in medical, surgical, dental and aesthetic practices.

• 07 Apr 2008| Drug Safety Update: Volume 1, Issue 9, April 2008

  The April issue of ‘Drug Safety Update’ includes: drug safety advice for contraceptives and the antiepileptic agent carbamazepine; a hot topic article on safe use of herbal medicines; and a Stop press message from Prof Rosalind Smyth (Chair of the Paediatric Medicines Expert Advisory Group) on the use of cough and cold medicines in children. To accompany drug safety advice for contraceptives, a question and answer sheet and an information sheet for women are also available for download.

• 04 Apr 2008| One Liners issue 56 - March 2008

  This news sheet is aimed at healthcare professionals and highlights problems with the use of medical devices. This issue is concerned entirely with the problems associated with wound dressings

• 27 Mar 2008| DB 2008(02) Adverse Incident Reports 2007

  This document provides an overview of medical device related adverse incident reports received by the MHRA in 2007.