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The MHRA will introduce a patient alert card to increase awareness among men taking finasteride about potential psychiatric and sexual side effects
Patients with severe alopecia areata (patchy hair loss) could access a new medicine to help treat their condition.
A patient alert card is being introduced for men taking finasteride to help raise awareness of the risk of psychiatric side effects and sexual dysfunction, including the potential for sexual dysfunction to persist after treatment has stopped. Healthcare professionals are...
This study describe an approach to mitigate sub-optimal root hair detection via structural root hair growth modelling
The government has today (20 November) launched England’s third Investment Zone in West Yorkshire focussed on Huddersfield, Bradford and Leeds, which will help to create more than 2,500 new jobs across the region over the next five years, and could...
Patients should be advised to promptly report to their doctor any changes in their breast tissue such as lumps, pain, or nipple discharge.
Employment Tribunal decision.
Decisions made by MHRA following investigations into complaints about advertising for licensed medicines.
Decisions made by the MHRA following investigations into complaints about advertising for licensed medicines.
We have received reports of depression and, in rare cases, suicidal thoughts in men taking finasteride 1 mg (Propecia) for male pattern hair loss. Be aware that depression is also associated with finasteride 5 mg (Proscar).
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