EU Launches Safety Review Of Pseudoephedrine Over New Ischemia Concerns

Companies Are To Provide Comments By 24 March

The French regulator says that the safety issues associated with pseudoephedrine-containing medicines, and the fact that they are indicated for "benign, non-life threatening and self-resolving conditions," calls their benefit-risk balance into question. 

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Pseudoephedrine can cause ischemic events in the brain • Source: Shutterstock

The future of more than 300 medicines containing the decongestant pseudoephedrine is in the balance after the EU’s drug safety watchdog said it was looking into concerns raised by the French medicines agency, ANSM, about the risk of two conditions affecting the blood vessels in the brain.

ANSM said it was concerned about new data from a small number of cases of posterior reversible encephalopathy syndrome (PRES)...

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