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A coroner has written to the medicines regulator and NHS England (NHSE) following the death of a 35-year-old woman after taking the anti-nausea drug cyclizine, which she had purchased from a community pharmacy.
Earlier this month, (December 8) coroner Joanne Kearsley found that 35-year-old Charlene Roberts died from cyclizine toxicity, anorexia, aspiration pneumonia and factitious disorder at Fairfield General Hospital on January 12, 2023.
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