A UKMi Product Safety assessment on Neofordex 40mg tablets (dexamethasone) which describes the in-use medication safety considerations resultant from the products presentation or other pre-defined…
This Medicines Q&A discusses the use of medicines that can be used to prevent acute mountain sickness, including acetazolamide, dexamethasone, and gingko biloba.
This updated Medicines Q&A is a quick reference summary to different types of enteral feeding tubes, in relation to medication issues. Not all enteral feeding…
A UKMi Product Safety assessment on dexamethasone injection which describes the in-use medication safety considerations resultant from the product’s presentation or other predefined characteristics. Potential next…
In April 2014, the marketing authorisation for the Organon dexamethasone 4mg/mL injection transferred to Aspen Pharma Trading Limited and the injection was reformulated, resulting in…
In July 2014 the European Union’s Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) recommended extending the Marketing Authorisation for Ozurdex to treat adult patients…
Corticosteroid preparations for ophthalmic use have limited systemic absorption in the mother, and pose negligible risk to a breastfed infant. Systemic absorption from eye drops…
Fludrocortisone is used mainly for mineralocorticoid replacement in adrenocortical insufficiency. The other drugs in this group are used mainly for their anti-inflammatory, glucocorticoid activity, although…