Revised: 7 September 2023

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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 – September 2023 (PDF 696 KB, 25 pages)

The following articles are in the latest issue.

• Spotlight on clonidine
• Quarterly summary of recent safety communications
• Reports of persisting serious adverse reactions to fluoroquinolones
• Antidepressant withdrawal: taper antidepressants slowly
• Recent data sheet updates: important new safety information
• Vanishing bile duct syndrome – a complication of drug-induced liver injury
• MARC’s remarks: June 2023 meeting
• Clozapine survey
• Medicines Monitoring: Interleukin inhibitors and possible risk of pancreatitis
• Recent approvals: new active ingredients or new indications
• Infusion-related reactions – not all allergy related
• Restrictions on the supply, prescribing and administration of controlled drugs
• Gathering knowledge from adverse reaction reports: September 2023