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Drug Safety Update

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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Warfarin: be alert to the risk of drug interactions with tramadol

    Taking warfarin and tramadol together can cause harmful drug interactions, which can raise the International Normalised Ratio (INR), and result in severe bruising and bleeding, which in some patients could be fatal.

    • Therapeutic area: Dispensing GP practices and 2 others
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  • Recombinant human erythropoietins: new advice for prescribing

    Over-correction of haemoglobin concentration may increase the risk of death and serious cardiovascular events in patients with chronic kidney disease; it may increase the risk of thrombosis and related complications in patie…

    • Therapeutic area: Cancer and 1 others
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