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Operation Pangea - Officers from the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) have seized millions of illegally traded medicines and medical devices.
We are reviewing the risks and benefits of the acne medicine, isotretinoin. In particular whether some of the possible psychiatric and sexual side effects continue after treatment has been stopped.
The National Institute for Biological Standards and Control (NIBSC) will play a key role in evaluating vaccines that have been developed for COVID-19
The MHRA will now issue all safety-critical alerts for medicines and medical devices that require action as National Patient Safety Alerts
Reporting suspected side effects or incidents to the Yellow Card scheme supports the safe use of medical products for everyone
Stephen Lightfoot will become Chair of the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) from 1 September 2020.
A new campaign to raise awareness of the fire risk and the precautions that need to be taken by users of skin creams has been launched today
Ground-breaking innovation to support medical technologies
The MHRA is aware of certificates being issued by certification bodies headed “certificates of compliance” or “Attestation of Compliance”.
Warning that thermal cameras and other such “temperature screening” products, some of which make direct claims to screen for COVID-19, are not a reliable way to detect if people have the virus.
Anyone supplying these types of tests should temporarily stop this service.
Allergy patients who carry Emerade 500 microgram adrenaline auto-injector pens should contact their prescriber and seek replacement pens of a different brand.
A new online reporting site, dedicated to reporting any suspected side effects from medicines, future vaccines and incidents involving medical equipment relating to COVID-19 treatment, has today been launched.
An increasing number of bogus medical products being sold through unauthorised websites claiming to treat or prevent COVID-19 are being investigated by the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA).
Adapted breathing aid developed by UCL, UCLH and Mercedes Formula One provides vital technology to NHS.
Patients are urged to stop taking 5mg ulipristal acetate as soon as possible and contact a healthcare professional for advice on alternative treatments.
The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA) launches a week long social media campaign to raise awareness about the importance of reporting suspected side effects using the Yellow Card Scheme.
First published during the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government
The Medicines and Medical Devices Bill introduces new safety measures, increases the professions that can prescribe low-risk medicines and allows hospitals to develop personalised medicines.
Ranitidine – MHRA drug alert issued as Creo Pharma Limited and Tillomed Laboratories recall unexpired stock
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