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Drug Safety Update

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Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency
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  • Piroxicam: new restrictions, including specialist initiation

    Systemic piroxicam should be initiated only by specialists as a second-line treatment for arthritis, with patients who currently take piroxicam reassessed at a routine appointment.

    • Therapeutic area: Pain management and palliation and 1 others
    • Published:
  • NSAIDs and coxibs: balancing of cardiovascular and gastrointestinal risks

    Patients should use the lowest effective dose, and the shortest duration of treatment necessary to control symptoms.

    • Therapeutic area: Pain management and palliation and 1 others
    • Published:
  • Ketoprofen and ketorolac: gastrointestinal risk

    Prescribing advice should be followed carefully, particularly recommended upper dose limits due to associated higher gastrointestinal risk than most other NSAIDs in the class.

    • Therapeutic area: Pain management and palliation and 1 others
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