Drug Safety Update: Volume 3 Issue 3, October 2009

admin October 12th, 2009

The MHRA have issued the October 2009 Drug Safety Update.

  • Ceftriaxone: incompatibility with calcium-containing solutions—updated advice
  • High-dose cyproterone acetate: potential risk of (multiple) meningiomas
  • Yellow Card Scheme update
  • Human papillomavirus (HPV) immunisation programme—first year safety review
  • Smoking and smoking cessation: clinically significant interactions with commonly used medicines
  • Aspirin: not licensed for primary prevention of thrombotic vascular disease
  • Varenicline and suicidal behaviour: cohort study provides some reassurance

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