The Pharmaceutical Journal
Vol 277 No 7483 p709
22/29 December 2007

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Products

Accessing SPCs
The summaries of product characteristics and patient information leaflets for medicines licensed in the UK are available online

Prescription Products
• Atripla
• ATryn
• Dyloject
• Eprex
Discontinued products
• Aminogran
• IntronA
Supply issues
• Cardura XL

Recall Woodward's Gripe Water

Prescription Products

Atripla
Atripla (efavirenz 600mg, emtricitabine 200mg and tenofovir disoproxil 245mg) tablets are now available from Gilead.
Net price: 30, £626.90
Legal category: POM

ATryn
ATryn (antithrombin alfa) powder for solution for infusion is now available from Leo Pharma.
Net price: 10 x 1,750iu vials, £17,850
Legal category: POM

Dyloject
Dyloject (diclofenac sodium) solution for injection is now available from Javelin.
Net price: 10 x 75mg/2ml vials, £48
Legal category: POM

Eprex
Eprex (epoetin alfa) solution for injection is now available from Janssen-Cilag as a 30,000iu/0.75ml pre-filled syringe.
Net price: 1, £226.26
Legal category: POM

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Discontinued products

Aminogran
Aminogran PKU tablets and Aminogran Food Supplement powder have been discontinued by UCB Pharma. Stocks are expected to be exhausted by the end of 2007.

IntronA
IntronA (interferon alfa-2b; Schering-Plough) powder and solvent for solution for injection or infusion 10 million iu/ml has been discontinued and replaced with IntronA solution for injection or infusion 10 million iu/ml.

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Supply issues

Cardura XL
Pfizer is out of stock of Cardura XL (doxazosin) 8mg tablets. The company expects product to be available for supply by 24 December 2007. No other presentations of Cardura XL are affected. Pfizer expects intermittent stock issues with Cardura XL 8mg over the next few weeks.

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