A number of medicines available to patients in Ireland are due to be recalled in the coming days over concerns at a manufacturing plant in India.

The State’s drug regulation body was alerted about a blood-testing kit error two months before a public notice was issued this week.

Diabetes patients in the UK have been warned to check their blood glucose meters after officials discovered a potentially deadly flaw in some devices.

A woman has told an inquest how her 16-year-old son hanged himself after his “personality changed” having been prescribed an acne medication which had reported side effects of depression and suicidal tendencies.

It is now feared that more Irish women than previously thought may have been fitted with PIP breast implants.

The British government is expected today to advise women affected by the PIP breast implant scandal whether they should have them removed.

FEARS over the safety of silicone breast implants made by a now defunct French firm spread to Australia, South America and across Europe, as French officials prepared to decide if thousands of women should have their implants surgically removed.

THE amount of paracetamol that should be given to children is being reviewed by the state’s drug policing body following a decision to cut it in half in Britain.

THE makers of Nurofen Plus recalled tablets in Britain last night and confirmed sabotage was suspected in packets of the painkillers.

The makers of Nurofen Plus recalled the tablets tonight and confirmed sabotage was suspected in packets of the painkillers.

THOUSANDS of packets of pain killer Nurofen Plus have been mistakenly filled with an anti-psychotic drug, made by an different company and meant only for schizophrenia, mania and bipolar depression sufferers.

PEOPLE are being warned against buying “dangerous” herbal slimming aids online.

CELEBRITY sun-seekers have been left in the shade by Pippa Middleton after her tan was voted the most desirable skin tone of the summer.

More than 500 women have fallen pregnant in the UK despite using a popular contraceptive implant, according to new figures.

DOCTORS injected cells into the brain of a patient in the “world’s first” stem cell trial for stroke victims, it was announced yesterday.

THE Irish Medicines Board said it did not consider certain medications for osteoporosis could increase the risk of cancer.

An urgent probe was underway in the UK today into why a 14-year-old girl died shortly after being given a cervical cancer vaccine.

Doctors in the UK have been alerted over fears that Tamiflu could put some patients at increased risk of suffering a stroke, it was reported today.

BRITAIN is to strengthen the law on disclosing drug trial results following a four-year inquiry into GlaxoSmithKline Plc’s delay in reporting data linking its antidepressant Seroxat to suicide risk in teenagers.

Research indicating that new-generation antidepressants work no better than dummy pills was seized upon today as evidence that doctors are over-prescribing.

The news that US detectives were investigating a modern-day body-snatching ring was enough to send shivers down anyone’s spine.

Anti-wrinkle treatments which are not properly regulated are increasingly used in the UK, a report out today warns.

An HIV drug has been recalled because “human error” led to a higher than normal level of a chemical which can cause cancer, its makers said.

A patient has received a possibly contaminated human body part stolen in the United States, a hospital confirmed today.

THE British Government’s drug watchdog yesterday criticised the firm behind a disastrous drug trial which left six men seriously ill.

There is “no evidence” to suggest any problems with the manufacturing of a drug given to six men who became seriously ill in a drugs trial, the British government agency responsible for the safety of medicines said today.

Anti-depressants are the best way to treat children with depression, according to a US Government study out today.

Doctors and health workers in England were today warned not to use a pregnancy testing kit on patients after concerns emerged that some women could have been given incorrect results.

The US government today banned the sale of ephedra, an herbal supplement used for weight control that has been linked to a number of deaths and harmful side effects.

ANTI-depressant drugs which could make young patients suicidal have never been approved for children under 18 years of age, the Irish Medicines Board said yesterday.

Three schemes offering share benefits to UK pharmacists in return for buying medicinal products were stopped by the British medicines watchdog.