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Coroner: Medicines regulator must ‘take action’ after anti-nausea P-med death

 
• By Kate Bowie

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.

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Ms Roberts' family said that they “had been able to obtain cyclizine in a pharmacy” without being questioned
Kate Bowie

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Kate Bowie joined C+D as a digital reporter in August 2023 after graduating from a master’s in journalism at City, University of London. She began covering the primary care beat at the end of 2022, when she carried out several health investigations focused on staffing issues, NHS funding and health inequalities.

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