Safety Alerts Medicines adverse drug reactions ADRs

Medicines information general information below.

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Fraud and failure to protect patients by regulators

European medicines agency inquiry into fraud:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/drug-watchdog-in-fraud-investigation-6258244.html

Royal College of Physicians paper with information about GSK threat to take manufacturing out of UK - even after they avoided litigation following their cover up of known suicide risk linked to Seroxat

http://bookshop.rcplondon.ac.uk/contents/76673804-76c5-4ab3-89a0-92d44e45edc3.pdf

Safety Alerts

Adverse Drug Reaction (ADR) Bulletins Drug recalls and Warnings

USA Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Medicines Safety Alerts

http://www.fda.gov/Safety/MedWatch/SafetyInformation/SafetyAlertsforHumanMedicalProducts/default.htm

World Health Organisation (WHO) Safety Alerts

http://www.who.int/medicines/publications/drugalerts/drugalertindex/en/index.html

Australia

http://www.tga.gov.au/safety/problem-medicine-report-adr.htm

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UK - Association of British Pharmaceutical Industries (ABPI)

Web site with all the up to date patient information leaflets and the information provided by the manufacturer when the drug is licensed (and sometimes updated) in Summary of Product Characteristics (SPC). Free access, no registration required. www.medicines.org.uk

Drug alert warnings from FDA Medwatch

You can use MedWatch as a trusted source for timely safety information on drugs and other medical products regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
http://www.fda.gov/medwatch/safety.htm

Patient UK news items:

http://news.patient.co.uk/newspaper.asp?ss=10&pc=178999#12971

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We have successfully instigated inclusion of adverse reactions and withdrawal effects in Suicide Prevention Strategies in England. The inclusion of depression as a side-effect of Dianette (Diane-35) being included on the patient information. We have increased the level of patient reporting to the regulator. We are supporting efforts to include pharmacology back into the medical curriculum.
The work must go on, as we are the only charity creating awareness of psychiatric adverse reactions (ADRs) to all kinds of medication & anaesthetics.

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