Revised: 6 March 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.
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Download the latest issue of Prescriber Update – March 2020 (PDF 843 MB, 23 pages)
The following articles are in the latest edition.
- Spotlight on nitrofurantoin
- Isotretinoin: Why it’s important to prevent pregnancy
- Acitretin: Changes to pregnancy prevention requirements
- Adverse reaction reporting in New Zealand – 2019
- Influenza vaccine: Looking back on 2019 and what to expect this year
- Correction: Some medicines increase serum creatinine without affecting glomerular function
- Recent approvals of medicines containing a new active ingredient
- Quarterly summary of recent safety communications
- Hormone replacement therapy (HRT) reminder
- MARC’s remarks: December 2019 meeting
- Medicines Monitoring: Dabigatran
- Gathering knowledge from adverse reaction reports: March 2020
- Interacting elements – zinc-induced copper deficiency
- The Medsafe Files – Episode 13: Medical device adverse event reporting
- Hearing and Responding to the Stories of Survivors of Surgical Mesh report: Update from the Ministry of Health
- Medicinal Cannabis Scheme: Update from the Ministry of Health
