Revised: 3 December 2020

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Latest Issue of Prescriber Update

Prescriber Update is a newsletter written for health care professionals. Prescriber Update provides information on safety concerns with medicines and medical devices.

Download the latest issue of Prescriber Update – December 2020 (PDF 655 KB, 21 pages)

The following articles are in the latest edition.

• In memoriam – Chip Gresham, Medicines Adverse Reactions Committee member
• MARC’s remarks: September 2020 meeting
• Spotlight on empagliflozin
• New COVID-19 section on the Medsafe website
• Do not use oral sedating antihistamines for sedation of children
• Fluconazole – OK to use in pregnancy?
• Test your knowledge: The Prescriber Update quiz 2020
• The Medsafe Files – Episode 14: Biosimilar medicines
• Medicines Monitoring: Bupropion
• Quarterly summary of recent safety communications
• Gathering knowledge from adverse reaction reports: December 2020
• Dissecting systemic VEGF inhibitors: effects on arteries
• Recent approvals: new active ingredients or new indications
• A bitter-Sweet syndrome with potential autoimmune connections
• Acute generalised exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP)
• Quiz answers