[e-drug] Contents of Prescrire International, April 2008 Volume 17 N° 94

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Contents of Prescrire International, 

April 2008 Volume 17  N° 94

Editorial

. Hypocrisy    

  EU regulators put asthma patients at risk

New Products

. Aliskiren (arterial hypertension)                          

No evidence of clinical efficacy

. Carglumic acid (rare urea cycle disorder - a second look)    

Confirmed progress

. 0.4% glyceryl trinitrate ointment (chronic anal fissures)           

Not useful

. Artemether + lumefantrine (uncomplicated malaria)       

An alternative to atovaquone + proguanil

. Budesonide + formoterol (asthma attacks)          

A step backwards  

. 7-valent pneumococcal vaccine (otitis)              

No tangible efficacy

. Common stems - INNs  

-tocin and -kiren

. Levetiracetam (tonic-clonic seizures)          

Another second-line option

. Celecoxib     

Still around, unfortunately



 

 Shortcuts                                                                             _________
 

. Rotigotine       

            

Adverse effects                                                                                
 

. Drug-induced interstitial pneumonia         

. Etonogestrel contraceptive implant: ulnar nerve damage    

. Rhabdomyolysis linked to Chinese red yeast rice           

. Misoprostol and pregnancy: risk of malformations    

. Telithromycin: visual disorders, myasthenia       

. Adverse drug effects: in children too      

. Mesotherapy: mycobacteriosis                       

. Codeine: death of a breastfed newborn           

. Domperidone and sudden death                 

. Etonogestrel implants: drug interactions 

and unintended pregnancies               


Reviews                                                                                                  
 

. Osteodensitometry in healthy postmenopausal women        

Useful for avoiding unecessary treatment

. Prescrire's advice: Bone mineral density measurement 

and fracture prevention after the menopause                          

 

 

Minireview 

. Antenatal betamethasone: reassuring long-term data          

. Household spoons: do not use 

for drug administration    

 

 

Outlook                                                                                                
. 2007 Prescrire Awards            

. New medicines in 2007: regulatory agencies 

and policy makers leave public health  in the hands 
of the pharmaceutical industry  

. Drug packaging in 2007: some improvements, 

still many risks              

. Prescrire's advice: Drug packaging: preventing bedside 

confusion       

. Medication errors
Drug regulatory agencies maintain confusion between brand names   


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