Urgent Drug Safety Update

Urgent Drug Safety Update

Urgent Drug Safety Update for male patients taking Sodium Valproate – contraception advised. First reported on the BBC today (5th September 2024), why were Healthcare professionals not notified as a priority? Of course, we’re just the ones facing patients every day, so why tell us? Why are we the last to know? Men advised to use contraception whilst taking Sodium Valproate medication

A link to the BBC article is here

and to the full MHRA Drug Safety Update from which the BBC published is here

with advice and information to pass to patients.

If you didn’t follow the BBC, how would you have known? Authorities need to get their act together – too much time spent talking to themselves and not to those who need to know to improve public safety and wellbeing. Especially the patients, who need to know. Men advised to use contraception whilst taking Sodium Valproate medication. Urgent drug safety update, MHRA link contains several useful pieces of information to advise patients.

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