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

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