Company: Janssen-Cilag Ltd. Legal category: Prescription. HT. Sport permitted. Active ingredient: Ustekinumab 45mg/0.5ml. Description: Clear to slightly opalescent, colourless to light yellow solution for injection. Presentation: Price available upon request. Indication: Moderate to severe plaque psoriasis in adults who failed to respond to, or who have a contraindication to, or are intolerant to other systemic [...]
Targin
Company: Mundipharma Pharmaceuticals Ltd. Legal category: Controlled Drug. Sport prohibited. Active ingredients: Oxycodone HCl/naloxone HCl 10mg/5mg; 20mg/10mg. Description: Respectively white or pink oblong film-coated tablets marked OXN on one side and 10 or 20 on the other. Presentations: 10mg/5mg-56, €49.93; 20mg/10mg-56, €95.82. Indication: Severe pain, which can be adequately managed only with opioid analgesics. The [...]
Lower price of medicines
MIMS Ireland wish to announce that they have updated a number of prices this month following the 40% reduction of long established medicines starting on the 1st February 2010. The reduction in price of nearly 300 named, familiar branded medicines is the result of an initiative by the industry to reduce costs for the State [...]
Fucidin H Ointment 15g & 30g Discontinued from March 2010
LEO Pharma would like to inform you of their intention to discontinue Fucidin H Ointment 15g and 30g from the Irish market in March 2010. This discontinuation is not due to any safety or quality issue therefore, allowing pharmacists and patients to continue to dispense or use Fucidin H Ointment that they currently have. Please [...]
Ceftriaxone – Contraindication and risk
h3. Ceftriaxone – Contraindication in newborns and risk of calcium-ceftriaxone precipitation when administered/mixed with solutions containing calcium Ceftriaxone is a broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic that is used to treat infections known or likely to be due to one or more susceptible micro-organisms and when parenteral therapy is needed. Ceftriaxone can be given by deep intramuscular injection, [...]
Lubri-Tears Discontinued
Alcon Laboratories (UK) Ltd would like to advise you that Lubri-Tears Eye Ointment was discontinued in Ireland in February 2010. The remaining stock of this product is now depleted and therefore this product is no longer available. There are currently several similar products available on the Irish market. Alcon Laboratories (UK) Ltd apologise for any [...]