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0Boots has issued a recall for 120,000 packs of its own brand paracetamol due to “incorrect packaging” and called on customers to return the product for a “full refund”.
0A new charity partnership has seen over 60 Fife pharmacies sign up to offer life-saving take-home naloxone services.
0A coroner has warned that the lack of “communication between primary and secondary care” may lead to the “early death” of more patients, after an NHS trust was not made aware of a pharmacy’s warning.
0The US Department of Justice (DOJ) has claimed that Boots’ parent company “systematically pressured its pharmacists to fill prescriptions quickly”, despite clear “red flags” and patient deaths.
0A study of over half-a-million over-65s has found links between repeatedly taking paracetamol and complications including gastrointestinal bleeding and heart failure.
0A woman with fibromyalgia has died from multiple organ failure with two medicines purchased from websites selling off-label prescription medications found in her body, a coroner has found.
0A 78-year-old woman has overdosed after being given excess diazepam and codeine she was “addicted to” ahead of an Easter bank holiday weekend, a coroner has found.
0Three members of an international drug gang have been sentenced for their role in the “large scale importation and distribution” of unregulated pharmaceutical drugs from India to the UK after police seized more than one million tablets.
0A pharmacy in Mexico owned by a leading Sinaloa cartel family is facing sanctions, according to the US government.
0A Lloydspharmacy worker who stole Ozempic from the Widnes pharmacy she worked at has been given a suspended sentence of 29 weeks in prison.