Revised: 1 December 2022

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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 2022 (PDF 679 KB, 21 pages)

The following articles are in the latest issue.

• Reminder: Flozins and the risks of diabetic ketoacidosis and Fournier’s gangrene
• Quarterly summary of recent safety communications
• Adverse drug reactions reported following use of oral COVID-19 therapeutics in New Zealand
• Medicines Monitoring: Abnormal uterine bleeding with oral anticoagulants
• Test your knowledge: the Prescriber Update quiz 2022
• MARC’s remarks: September 2022 meeting
• Microscopic colitis – could it be caused by a medicine?
• Recent approvals: new active ingredients or new indications
• Risk of hypoglycaemia with newer antidiabetic medicines
• Warfarin: eat, drink and be wary
• Gathering knowledge from adverse reaction reports: December 2022
• Pheochromocytoma crisis and systemic corticosteroids
• Quiz answers