Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

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• 21 Nov 2008

  Press release: Better Regulation of Medicines Initiative - Wins Better Regulation Award at National Business Awards

  We are proud to announce that the MHRA won the Better Regulation Award at the National Business Awards on Tuesday 18 November.

• 21 Nov 2008

  Appointment of two members (professional and lay) to the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee for MHRA database research (ISAC)

  We are looking to appoint two members to the Independent Scientific Advisory Committee for MHRA database research (ISAC).

• 20 Nov 2008

  MDA/2008/083 - Adult and paediatric manual resuscitators, manufactured by Marshall Products Ltd. Lot numbers L000028, L000088, L080401 to L080419 and L080526 to L080543

  This Medical Device Alert has been issued as there may be significant difficulty in connecting or disconnecting the device’s 15mm outlet directly onto airway devices such as endotracheal tubes or laryngeal masks.

• 20 Nov 2008

  Press release: Health alert over fake condoms in Yorkshire

  We are warning people in Yorkshire about fake condoms that could be in circulation around the county. These products are called Kamagra condoms and no such product legitimately exists in the UK.

• 19 Nov 2008

  Press release: Defibrillators may fail - says medical devices regulator

  We are advising first aiders and users of Medtronic Physio-Control LIFEPAK CR Plus automatic external defibrillators (AED) to test their device following advice from the manufacturer over concerns that the defibrillator could fail to turn on and work due to a faulty internal cable.

• 19 Nov 2008

  MDA/2008/082 - LIFEPAK CR Plus automatic external defibrillator manufactured by Medtronic Physio-Control

  This Medical Device Alert has been issued to highlight a faulty internal cable in defibrillators manufactured between November 2006 and March 2008 which means the defibrillator may fail to power on.

• 18 Nov 2008

  Clinical Pharmacologists Training Day

  We are hosting a training day to help clinical pharmacologists and students of clinical pharmacology to understand the place of clinical pharmacology in the regulation of medicines and the work of the MHRA.

• 17 Nov 2008

  MDA/2008/081 - Frazier and Poole suction instruments used in surgery manufactured by ConMed Corporation

  This Medical Device Alert (MDA) has been issued due to a risk of compromised sterility due to unvalidated method of packaging inspection.

• 17 Nov 2008

  Press release: “Tan jab” is an unlicensed medicine and may not be safe - warns medicines regulator

  We are warning people not to use an unlicensed medicine called Melanotan which is being advertised and sold illegally as an injectable tan on the Internet and in some tanning salons and body building gyms.

• 13 Nov 2008

  Press release: UK medicines investigators take part in international operation to tackle illegal Internet medicines

  The MHRA yesterday led an international operation, codenamed Pangea, in conjunction with INTERPOL and eight regulatory agencies worldwide to tackle the illegal sale and supply of medicines sold over the Internet.