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Topical steroid products are safe and highly effective treatments for the management of a wide range of inflammatory skin diseases but have important risks, especially with prolonged use at high potency. In the coming months, as a result of regulatory...
Fifteen additional synthetic opioids are now under the strictest controls to prevent drug related deaths and ensure anyone caught supplying them faces tough penalties.
Three men have been sentenced to a total of three years at Manchester Crown Court after pleading guilty to the illegal sale and supply online of prescription-only medicines and controlled Class B and Class C drugs with a street value...
Fifteen new synthetic opioids and 5 other drugs will be banned as Class A drugs as the government continues to act to prevent drug deaths.
MHRA is asking for feedback on proposals to change the legal classification of Ibuprofen Seven Plus 200mg/5ml Oral Suspension
A summary of recent letters and notifications sent to healthcare professionals about medicines and medical devices.
How to comply with the requirements on promoting medicines to the public and to prescribers and suppliers of medicines.
How to package medicines for sale and what information you must provide to consumers and healthcare professionals.
A review of the evidence on the use and harms of 2-benzyl benzimidazole (nitazene) and piperidine benzimidazolone (brorphine-like) opioids.
Check what side effects people have reported when they've taken a medicine.
Information on carrying medicine containing controlled drugs for individual travellers entering or leaving the UK.
New 10-year plan to expand and improve the drug and alcohol workforce published.
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