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Monday, 29 April 2024
Further measures to be introduced to ensure patients who are prescribed montelukast for the treatment of asthma are informed of the risk of neuropsych...
Monday, 29 April 2024
The MHRA will introduce a patient alert card to increase awareness among men taking finasteride about potential psychiatric and sexual side effects...
Tuesday, 09 April 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (9 April 2024) approved the medicine fosdenopterin (Nulibry) to treat the gen...
Friday, 05 April 2024
Batches of some products made by Legency Remedies Pvt Ltd have been found to contain a bacteria called Ralstonia pickettii (R. pickettii). All potenti...
Thursday, 04 April 2024
The MHRA has approved the combined antibiotic cefepime/enmetazobactam (Exblifep 2 g/0.5 g powder for concentrate for solution for infusion)...
Monday, 25 March 2024
Thousands of counterfeit or unbranded copies of LifeVac anti-choking devices are being sold across the UK. The public is reminded to check their produ...
Friday, 15 March 2024
A company director and his pharmaceutical manufacturing company were sentenced in court today after pleading guilty to two charges of falsifying data ...
Tuesday, 12 March 2024
The UK suspension of the MAGEC system (modified MAGEC X system only) has been lifted as of 23 February 2024 ...
Monday, 11 March 2024
The MHRA welcomes the publication of Dame Margaret Whitehead’s Equity in Medical Devices: Independent Review...
Monday, 11 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (11 March 2024) approved the medicine quizartinib (Vanflyta) to be used along...
Monday, 11 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (11 March 2024) approved the medicine etrasimod?(Velsipity) to treat people w...
Thursday, 07 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 March 2024) approved the medicine ganaxolone (Ztalmy) as the first anti-se...
Thursday, 07 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (7 March 2024) approved the medicine rozanolixizumab (Rystiggo) to treat adul...
Wednesday, 06 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (6 March 2024) approved the medicine piflufolastat (18F) (Pylclari) as a diag...
Wednesday, 06 March 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (6 March 2024) approved the Rubidium (Rb82) Generator (RUBY-FILL) as a diagno...
Friday, 01 March 2024
Launched in January 2024, IRP aims to further help bring life-saving new medicines to UK patients without delay...
Wednesday, 28 February 2024
Process changes from 1 March 2024 build on measures already implemented by the agency...
Monday, 26 February 2024
Dame June Raine, MHRA's Chief Executive, will be stepping down in the Autumn following five years in the role...
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
People are urged to seek advice from healthcare professionals if they feel they have become dependent on or addicted to codeine linctus....
Tuesday, 20 February 2024
The MHRA has reviewed the latest evidence relating to the very rare risk of PRES and RCVS associated with medicines containing pseudoephedrine...
Tuesday, 13 February 2024
The Yellow Card Biobank will today start investigating a new group of medicines known as Direct Oral Anticoagulants...
Friday, 09 February 2024
Approval of a change to the licence of Comirnaty COVID-19 vaccine will enable thawing and re-labelling of the vaccine outside of the NHS...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has designated two new UK Approved Bodies, delivering increased capacity for the certif...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
No one should stop taking valproate without advice from their healthcare professional...
Wednesday, 31 January 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (30 January 2024) approved the medicine momelotinib (Omjjara) to treat the sy...
Tuesday, 30 January 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), working with law enforcement partners, seized more than 15.5 million doses of illegall...
Monday, 29 January 2024
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has today (29 January 2024) approved the medicine Rezzayo (rezafungin) to treat a funga...
Thursday, 25 January 2024
The new presentation of Mounjaro gives four doses for once-a-week treatment over a month....
Monday, 22 January 2024
Do not stop your hypertriglyceridemia treatment without a discussion with your doctor...
Monday, 22 January 2024
Following a review of the effectiveness of current measures to reduce the risk of potentially long-term or irreversible side effects associated with f...