Archive for November, 2008

Drug Safety Update: Volume 2, Issue 4, November 2008

admin November 7th, 2008

This month’s Drug Safety Update has been published. Direct link here. Items include:

  • Varenicline: adverse psychiatric reactions, including depression
  • Tigecycline: new formulation affects compatibility
  • Reporting by community pharmacists is encouraged for OTCs
  • Ezetimibe and possible increased risk of cancer: results of SEAS study
  • Rimonabant: European suspension of marketing authorisation
  • Inhaled anticholinergics: recent published data for risk of death or stroke
  • Paracetamol use in infancy: no strong evidence for asthma link
  • Device bulletin: use of in vitro diagnostic devices with other medical equipment
  • Herbal medicines: packaging shows MHRA approval

Pronouncing drug names and website problems

admin November 7th, 2008

Recently this website has suffered a suspected attack leading to the website becoming temporarily unavailable due to a lack of bandwidth. We have therefore blocked a number of IP addresses and removed the Pronouncing Drug Names material from the site in order to maintain our web presence.

We apologise for any inconvenience this may cause our readers.