h4. Update on National and EU Experience with the H1N1 Pandemic Vaccines The Irish Medicines Board (IMB), together with the European Medicines Agency and National Competent Authorities across the EU, is continuously monitoring the safety profile of H1N1v pandemic influenza vaccines. With vaccination campaigns ongoing in the European Union, it is estimated that about 5 [...]
Afinitor
Company: Novartis Ireland Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. High Tech. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Everolimus 5mg, 10mg. Description: White to slightly yellow, elongated tablets with a bevelled edge and no score. Engraved with NVR on one side and, respectively, 5 or UHE on the other. Presentations: 5mg-30, €2829.13; 10mg-30, €4041.62. Indication: Treatment of patients with advanced [...]
Efracea
Company: Galderma Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Doxycycline 40mg (as monohydrate). Description: Beige, size 2 modified-release hard capsules marked CGPI 40. Presentation: 56, € 30.10. Indication: To reduce papulopustular lesions in adult patients with facial rosacea. Pharmacology: The pathophysiology of the inflammatory lesions of rosacea is, in part, a manifestation of [...]
Flotros
Company: Galen Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Trospium chloride 20mg. Description: Round, white film-coated tablet. Presentation: 60, €19.72 Indications: Symptomatic treatment of urge incontinence and/or increased urinary frequency and urgency as may occur in patients with overactive bladder (e.g. idiopathic or neurologic detrusor overactivity). Pharmacology: Trospium chloride is a quaternary derivative [...]
Tizanidine
Company: Niche Generics Ltd Legal category: Prescription. GMS. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Tizanidine 2mg, 4mg. Description: White, round tablets. 2mg: marked N62 on one side. 4mg: Scored and marked N63 on the other side; can be divided into equal halves. Presentations: 2mg-120 €63.33; 4mg-120, €73.95. Indication: Spasticity associated with multiple sclerosis or with spinal cord [...]
Volibris
Company: GlaxoSmithKline. Legal category: Prescription. High-Tech. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Ambrisentan 5mg, 10mg. Description: 5mg: Pale-pink, square, convex, film-coated tablet with GS on one side and K2C on the other. 10mg: Deep-pink, oval, convex, film-coated tablet with GS on one side and KE3 on the other. Presentations: Prices on request. Indications: Treatment of pulmonary arterial [...]
Centyl 2.5mg and Centyl 5mg Discontinued February 2010
LEO Pharma would like to inform you of their intention to discontinue Plain Centyl 2.5mg and Centyl 5mg from the Irish market in February 2010. This discontinuation is not due to any safety or quality issue, thus allowing pharmacists and patients to continue to dispense or use the plain Centyl stock that they currently have. [...]