Safety alerts & advisory statements
Alerts/advisories issued within the last 4 weeks
- Updated: Advice to consumers regarding Hydroxycut products
5 February 2010 - Medicines Safety Update
1 February 2010 - Reductil (sibutramine) product information
Updated 22 January 2010 - Anticipated shortage of injectable Indomethacin (INDOCID PDA)
13 January 2010 - Supply of Physeptone (methadone) tablets
8 January 2010
All alerts/advisories
Medicines alerts/advisories
- Medicines Safety Update
<http://www.tga.gov.au/adr/msu.htm> - Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Bulletin - 1995-2009
<http://www.tga.gov.au/adr/aadrb.htm> - Analgesics - aspirin, paracetamol
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/analgesics.htm> - Aristolochia
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/aristolochia.htm> - Ayurvedic medicines
<http://www.tga.gov.au/cm/ayurvedic.htm> - Bisphosphonate drugs and osteonecrosis of the jaw (ONJ)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/onj.htm> - Black cohosh
<http://www.tga.gov.au/cm/0705blkcohosh.htm> - BotanicLab
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/botaniclab.htm> - Bupropion (Zyban SR)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/zyban.htm> - Cerivastatin (withdrawal from sale)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/cerivast.htm> - Child-resistant closure (caps) on some liquid medicines need tightening to ensure safe storage
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/crc091013.htm> - Chuan Xiong Cha Tiao Wan pills
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/chuan.htm> - Cough, cold & flu medicines
<http://www.tga.gov.au/medicines/cold.htm> - Cox-2 inhibitors - Lumiracoxib (Prexige), meloxicam, arthritis drugs, Celecoxib (Celebrex)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/cox2.htm> - Diethylstilboestrol (DES)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/des1.htm> - Greater celandine (Chelidonium majus)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/celandine.htm> - Dithrasal ointment
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/dithrasal.htm> - Ginkgo Biloba products
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/gingko.htm> - Gold Cross Codeine Linctus APF
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/goldcross.htm> - Green lipped mussel & cancer
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/greenlip.htm> - Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza vaccine
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/h1n1.htm> - Heparin products - heparin, clexane
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/heparin1.htm> - Homoeopathic meningococcal vaccines
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/meninvac.htm> - Hormone replacement therapy (HRT)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/hrt.htm> - Human papillomavirus vaccine (Gardasil)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/gardasil.htm> - Hydroxycut products
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/hydroxycut1.htm> - Indomethacin (INDOCID PDA)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/indocid.htm> - Kava
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/kava.htm> - Lida Daidaihua Slimming Capsules
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/lida.htm> - Phenylpropanolamine
<http://www.tga.gov.au/docs/html/ppa.htm> - Physeptone (methadone)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/methadone.htm> - Polio vaccine & SV40 contamination
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/sv40.htm> - Reductil (sibutramine)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/reductil.htm> - SSRI antidepressants
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/ssri.htm> - St John's Wort
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/stjwort.htm> - Sunscreens
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/sunscreens.htm> - Trasylol (aprotinin) injection
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/trasylol.htm> - Vytorin and cancer risk
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/medicines/vytorin.htm> - Zolpidem (Stilnox)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/stilnox.htm>
Medical devices alerts/advisories
- Medical device incident reporting and investigation scheme (IRIS) articles
<http://www.tga.gov.au/problem/iris/iris-index.htm> - Guidant pacemakers
<http://www.tga.gov.au/recalls/2005/guidant.htm> - Hot/cold gel packs
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/devices/gelpacks.htm> - Peripherally inserted central catheters (PICC lines)
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/devices/picclines.htm> - Zirconia femoral head hip prostheses
<http://www.tga.gov.au/alerts/zirconia.htm>