Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues FDA enhances warnings for opioids US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced class-wide enhanced labelling warnings for: immediate-release opioid pain medications, in relation to risks of misuse, abuse, […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues Desmopressin patient safety alert NHS England has issued a patient safety alert warning (NHS/PSA/W/2016/001) on the risk of severe harm or death when desmopressin is omitted or delayed in […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues CME T34 Field Safety Notices CME T34 and leaking extension lines Due to reports of leaking, CME has issued a Field Safety Notice recalling CME syringe extension sets (product […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety issues Bisphosphonates and osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal MHRA have warned that osteonecrosis of the external auditory canal has been reported very rarely (<0.01%) with bisphosphonates, mostly in association with […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Controlled drug requisition requirements and instalment prescribing From 30 November 2015, an approved form is now mandatory when requisitioning Schedule 2 and 3 controlled drugs in the community (note […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Safe use and management of controlled drugs: NICE guideline consultation NICE has published a draft guideline for consultation for the safe use and management of controlled drugs (closing 25 […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Motor Neurone Disease: NICE guideline consultation NICE have published a draft guideline for consultation for motor neurone disease (closing 13 October 2015), The guideline covers the assessment and management of motor […]
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15/09/2015 Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics CQC annual report: safer management of controlled drugs The UK Care Quality Commission (CQC) has published their 2014 annual report on the safer management of controlled drugs and made […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Safety Updates MHRA further measures to minimise risk of osteonecrosis of the jaw with denosumab and IV bisphosphonates Following a review by MHRA and other EU regulators, denosumab 120mg is now […]
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Selected items from the News and Latest Additions sections of www.palliativedrugs.com, the world’s leading palliative care website with over 30,000 members from 169 Countries. Hot topics Cochrane review: Palliative interventions for controlling vaginal bleeding in advanced cervical cancer This new Cochrane review (CD011000) has been published in full on-line. Drug updates Co-danthramer and […]