§ Mr. Simon HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health if he will list the "Dear Doctor" letters sent since 1980 by chairmen of the Committee on Safety of Medicines to the medical profession, indicating for each the dates they were sent, the product concerned and the dates of any accompanying licensing action; and if he will make a statement. [27755]
§ Mr. MaloneThe "Dear Doctor" letters sent by the Committee on Safety of Medicines to the medical profession since 1980 are shown in the table. Information regarding any licensing action taken in respect of some of the products listed in the letters is confidential. The relevant information for the others could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
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Title Date of letter Products containing the following drug substance(s) Combined oral contraceptives and thromboembolism 18 October 1995 Combined oral contraceptives containing gestodene or desogestrel High-lipase pancreatins—reports of colonic strictures 21 December 1993 High strength pancreatic enzyme preparations Withdrawal of triazolam 1 October 1991 Triazolam Terodiline (Micturin) and adverse cardiac reactions 25 July 1991 Terodiline Withdrawal of Pacitron and Optimex 12 April 1990 L-tryptophan Desensitising vaccines (Allergen extracts) and anaphylaxis 8 October 1986 Desensitising vaccines containing allergen extracts Reye's syndrome and aspirin use by children 10 June 1986 Paediatric aspirin products Phenylbutazone and oxyphenbutazone 7 March 1984 Phenylbutezone and oxyphenbutazone Use of combined oral contraceptive pills and cancer 20 October 1983 Combined oral contraceptives Etomidate (Hypnomidate injection and infusion)—PL 0242/0019,0082 20 June 1983 Etomidate Etomidate (Hypnomidate for infusion)—PL 0242/0082 1 June 1983 Etomidate Opren suspension of product licences 3 August 1982 Benoxaprofen
§ Mr. HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health which current or past members or chairmen of the Committee on Safety of Medicines have been appointed for longer than the period prescribed in paragraph 4 of the Medicines Commission and Committees Regulations 1970; and if he will make a statement. [27757]
§ Mr. MaloneNone.
§ Mr. HughesTo ask the Secretary of State for Health on what occasions members of the Committee on Safety of Medicines have made representations(a) to him and (b) to the chairman of the committee indicating that the advice emanating from a subset of the committee which met on 13 October 1995 should be withdrawn. [27758]
§ Mr. MaloneNone.