Adverse Drug Events Reporting News

• Alert EMA Says Don't Mix Mysimba and Opioid-Containing Meds Existing advice for prescribing the weight loss drugs needs to be strengthened to minimize the risks from interactions, the European drug authority said.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert EU Backs Drug to Relieve Itching in Alagille Syndrome The European Medicines Agency said there were exceptional circumstances for approving Kayfanda to treat pruritus in patients with the rare genetic disorder.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert EMA Refuses Marketing Authorization for Alzheimer's Drug Leqembi's EU-wide marketing authorization was refused because the drug's effect on delaying cognitive decline does not counterbalance the risk for serious adverse events.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Alert EMA Backs Oral Drug for Primary Biliary Cholangitis Iqirvo can delay liver fibrosis and cirrhosis in patients with primary biliary cholangitis, the European Medicines Agency decided.
  Medscape Medical News, July 26, 2024
• Statins, Vitamin D, and Exercise in Older Adults Mengru Wang, MD, reviews several recently published articles and guidelines relevant to the care of older adults in primary care.
  MDedge News, July 26, 2024
• Inappropriate NSAID Prescribing Causing Avoidable Harm Prescribing NSAIDs to people at high risk of harm from them has cost more than 6000 years of good health and £31 million for the NHS over the past decade, a study found.
  Medscape News UK, July 26, 2024
• AIDS 2024 Twice-Yearly PrEP Gives 'Huge' 100% Protection Final results of the highly anticipated PURPOSE 1 trial of lenacapavir show the shots prevent new infections without many side effects.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Why Are Germans Getting Heavier? Changes in the population's weight have many causes, including an abundance of food and declining expenditure of energy.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Taper, Dose Down, Discontinue: Striving for Less Steroid Use Now in the 75th year since the first presentation on the clinical use of glucocorticoids, what consensus has been reached in sparing their use to avoid their many potential adverse effects?
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• EULAR 2024 Breaking Rheumatology's Reliance on Steroids: New Strategies Selective GC receptor agonists and modulators and GC plus hydroxysteroid dehydrogenase inhibitor combination therapy are some of the approaches under consideration.
  Medscape Medical News, July 25, 2024
• Treat Heart Failure More Like Cancer Heart failure should be handled more like cancer — with aggressive early treatment — targeting the cause of the disease, not just the symptoms.
  Medscape Medical News, July 24, 2024
• Why Millions Are Trying FDA-Authorized Alternatives Pharmacist Mark Mikhael has lost 50 lb over the past 12 months. He no longer has diabetes and finds himself at his ideal body weight with his cholesterol below 200.
  KFF Health News, July 23, 2024
• SPD 2024 Colchicine Effective for Pediatric Aphthous Ulcers The findings come from a retrospective review of Mayo Clinic patients.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• New Trials in Colorectal Cancer: Could Your Patient Benefit? Maybe one of your patients is eligible for a new colorectal cancer clinical trial?
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• New Benzoyl Peroxide Research: Reassuring Two new studies found no increased cancer risk and no difference in blood levels of benzene in users and nonusers of BP-containing acne products.
  Medscape Medical News, July 22, 2024
• Buprenorphine an Option for Pain Relief in Oldest Adults Buprenorphine is better at treating chronic pain than other opioids that carry a higher addiction risk and often cause constipation in elderly patients.
  MDedge News, July 18, 2024
• AIDS 2024 PURPOSE 1 Lenacapavir Results 'Highly Anticipated' The twice-yearly injectable preexposure prophylaxis demonstrated 100% efficacy at interim results. Now, specialists are sharing what they are looking forward to seeing at AIDS 2024 in Munich.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• SPD 2024 Consider Emergency Contraception for Teens With Acne There appears to be practice gaps in the prescribing of emergency contraception as well as combined oral contraceptives.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• Accelerated Brain Stim Curbs Resistant Bipolar Depression An accelerated schedule of intermittent theta burst stimulation proved effective in relieving depression in adults with refractory bipolar depression, results of a small sham-controlled trial showed.
  Medscape Medical News, July 17, 2024
• Roche Touts Early Trial Success Of Second Obesity Drug Candidate Roche said on Wednesday a second drug candidate from its purchase of Carmot Therapeutics yielded positive results in an early-stage trial, as the Swiss drugmaker asserted...
  Reuters Health Information, July 16, 2024