• Improved seizure control when added to other antiepileptic drugs (AEDs) (1) • High long-term retention rate • A dual mode of action UCB announced on 12th January 2009 that the European Commission (EC) has approved Vimpat (lacosamide) as adjunctive therapy in the treatment of partial-onset seizures with or without secondary generalisation in patients with [...]
Company: Alcon Laboratories (UK) Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Prohibited in specific sports. Active ingredients: Brinzolamide 10mg and timolol (as maleate) 5mg. Description: Eye drops. White to off white uniform suspension, pH 7.2. Presentation: 5ml, €17.80. Indications: Decrease of intraocular pressure (IOP) in adult patients with open angle glaucoma or ocular hypertension for whom monotherapy [...]
Company: Bayer Healthcare. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Fluconazole 150mg. Description: Opaque light blue hard capsule (size 1) printed CAN 150. Presentation: 1, €5.49. Indication: Acute or recurrent genital candidiasis, i.e. candidal vaginitis and candidal balanitis. The treatment of partners of patients with symptomatic genital candidiasis should also be considered. Pharmacology: Fluconazole [...]
Company: Clonmel Healthcare Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. HT. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Bicalutamide 50mg. Description: White round biconvex film-coated tablet. Presentation: 28, price available on request. Indications: Advanced prostate cancer: In combination with LHRH analogue therapy or surgical castration. Locally advanced prostate cancer: Alone or as adjuvant therapy to radical prostactectomy or radiotherapy in patients [...]
Company: TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport Permitted. Active ingredient: Ciprofloxacin 250mg, 500mg. Description: White, film-ctd tablets with breakline. The tablet can be divided into equal halves. 250mg: Biconvex, round marked CIP 250. 500mg: Capsule shaped marked CIP500 Presentation: 250mg-10, €5.08; 250mg-20, €10.17; 500mg-10, €9.46; 500mg-20, €18.94. Indications: Treatment of infections with Gram-negative [...]
Company: Pinewood Healthcare. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Venlafaxine (as hydrochloride) 75mg, 150mg. Description: Respectively, flesh opaque/flesh opaque or scarlet opaque/scarlet opaque, size 0 or size 00 hard gelatine capsules containing two or three white round, biconvex film-coated tablets. Presentation: 75mg-28, €22.15; 150mg-28, €37.35. Indications: Treatment of depressive illness, including depression accompanied [...]
Company: TEVA Pharmaceuticals Ireland. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport Permitted. Active ingredient: Famciclovir 125mg, 250mg. Description: White to off-white, round, film-coated tablets marked 93 on one side. 125mg marked 8117 and 250mg marked 8118 on reverse. Presentation: 125mg-10, €19.01; 250mg-15, €57.01. Indications: Treatment of genital herpes infections (initial and recurrent epidoses) in immunocompetent patients. Suppression [...]
Company: Pinewood Healthcare. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Glucosamine sulfate 1500mg. Description: White to slightly yellow crystalline odourless powder for oral solution. Presentation: 30, €20.28. Indication: Treatment of the symptoms of osteoarthritis, i.e. pain and function limitation. Pharmacology: Glucosamine sulfate is the salt of the natural amino-monosaccharide glucosamine which is physiologically present [...]
Company: Pfizer Healthcare Ireland. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Eletriptan 40mg (as hydrobromide). Description: Round, convex orange film-coated tablets debossed with REP 40 on one side and Pfizer on the other. Presentation: 6, €27.34. Indication: Acute treatment of the headache phase of migraine attacks, with or without aura. Pharmacology: Eletriptan is a [...]
As part of a Global rationalisation process, AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals (Ireland) Ltd is planning to withdraw the following products from the Irish market: • Avloclor 250mg tablets • Paludrine 100mg tablets • Heminevrin Syrup and capsules • Xyloproct Ointment The following presentations form the Betaloc and Diprivan ranges are also being withdrawn: • Betaloc 200mg prolonged [...]
Loading ...
