[e-drug] Australian Prescriber October issue

["Susan Reid" <sreid@nps.org.au>]

E-DRUG: Australian Prescriber October issue
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Dear e-Drug colleagues

Australian Prescriber Vol 27 No 5 October 2004 is now online at
www.australianprescriber.com

CONTENTS

*          Signing the script: P Nisselle (editorial)
*          Keeping advertisers honest - an overview of the regulation of
the advertising of medicines and medical devices in Australia: CA Davies
*          Withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs in seizure-free adults: CJ
Kilpatrick
*          Drug treatments in polycystic ovary syndrome: B Joyner
*          Early management of acute stroke: RI Lindley & PB Landau
*          Diabetes and antipsychotic drugs: J Proietto

Plus regular features:

*          Letters to the Editor
*          Book review: Australian Medicines Handbook 2004
*          Book review: Medicines out of control?
*          RADAR: ezetimibe
*          New drugs: agalsidase beta, agalsidase alfa, iobenguane
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See also the October issue of the Australian Adverse Drug Reactions
Bulletin Vol 23 No 5

<http://www.tga.gov.au/adr/aadrb/aadr0410.htm>

*          Australian experience with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
*          Warnings for high dose tricyclic antidepressants
*          Terbinafine and blood dyscrasias
*          Cholinesterase inhibitors and cardiac arrhythmias
Quinine indications - cramps deleted