Pharmacy alerts

  • Clopidogrel Oral Liquids (all strengths)

    Class 2 Medicines Recall: Xeal Pharma, Clopidogrel Oral Liquids (all strengths).

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  • IXCHIQ Chikungunya vaccine: UK marketing authorisation withdrawn following safety review

    Drug Safety Update: UK marketing authorisation withdrawn for IXCHIQ Chikungunya vaccine following safety review.

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  • Nova Biomedical StatStrip ketone test strips

    Device Safety Information: Nova Biomedical StatStrip ketone test strips: risk of disruption to blood ketone testing due to quality-control failures and supply interruption.

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  • Antidepressants: new safety measures for all patients

    Drug safety update: Antidepressants: new safety measures for all patients to improve communication of the risk of suicidal thoughts and behaviours and persistent sexual dysfunction.

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  • Supply disruption for Nova Biomedical StatStrip blood ketone test strips 

    The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has published a National Patient Safety Alert regarding a quality issue affecting specified lots of StatStrip ketone test strips.

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  • Continuous renal replacement therapy (CRRT): Consider delayed administration of concurrent echinocandins

    Device Safety Information: CRRT – consider delayed administration of concurrent echinocandins, such as caspofungin, to reduce the risk of adsorption onto new polyacrylonitrile (PAN)-based filter membranes.

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