NPC Archive Item: Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Drug Safety Update is an NHS Evidence accredited provider 25 January 2010 The MHRA and CHM have published the January edition of Drug Safety Update (DSU). Highlights include: […]

NPC Archive Item: Sibutramine (Reductil) licence suspended throughout Europe

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 22 January 2010 The MHRA has announced that the licence for sibutramine has been suspended throughout Europe. This follows a review which considered the increased risk of non-fatal heart […]

NPC Archive Item: Sedatives, hypnotics and antidepressants associated with an increased risk of falling in older people

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 4 January 2010 A meta-analysis has found that, in people older than 60 years, benzodiazepines, other sedatives and hypnotics, and antidepressants are associated with an increased risk of falling […]

NPC Archive Item: December Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Drug Safety Update is an NHS Evidence accredited provider 11 December 2009 The MHRA and CHM have published the December edition of Drug Safety Update (DSU). Highlights include: […]

NPC Archive Item: November Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Drug Safety Update is an NHS Evidence accredited provider 12 November 2009 The MHRA and CHM have published the November edition of Drug Safety Update (DSU). Highlights include: […]

NPC Archive Item: Safety monitoring programme up and running for swine flu vaccines

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 27 October 2009 The MHRA has established a safety monitoring programme for swine flu vaccines to capture, evaluate, and monitor suspected adverse drug reactions. Action Members of the public […]

NPC Archive Item: October Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Drug Safety Update is an NHS Evidence accredited provider 15 October 2009 The MHRA and CHM have published the October edition of Drug Safety Update. There is a […]

NPC Archive Item: NPC Podcast – 25th September 2009

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. Steve Morris talks to Chris Harris, Controlled Drugs Policy lead at the Department for Health, and Gillian Arr-Jones, Chief Pharmacist at the Care Quality Commission (CQC), about the recent […]

NPC Archive Item: FDA reviews the safety of Orlistat

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. 22 September 2009 The FDA is reviewing the safety information for Orlistat following reports of serious liver injury. However, no definite association between liver injury and orlistat has been […]

NPC Archive Item: September Drug Safety Update from MHRA/CHM

NOTE – This is an archive post from the NPC and has not been updated since first publication. Therefore, some hyperlinks may no longer be working. The Drug Safety Update is an NHS Evidence accredited provider 11th September 2009 New data show that insulin glargine is not associated with an increase in cancer (07/08/12) Since […]