[e-drug] Australian Prescriber October issue

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E-DRUG: Australian Prescriber October issue
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Dear e-Drug colleagues

Australian Prescriber Vol 27 No 5 October 2004 is now online at
www.australianprescriber.com

CONTENTS

* Signing the script: P Nisselle (editorial)
* Keeping advertisers honest - an overview of the regulation of
the advertising of medicines and medical devices in Australia: CA Davies
* Withdrawal of antiepileptic drugs in seizure-free adults: CJ
Kilpatrick
* Drug treatments in polycystic ovary syndrome: B Joyner
* Early management of acute stroke: RI Lindley & PB Landau
* Diabetes and antipsychotic drugs: J Proietto

Plus regular features:

* Letters to the Editor
* Book review: Australian Medicines Handbook 2004
* Book review: Medicines out of control?
* RADAR: ezetimibe
* New drugs: agalsidase beta, agalsidase alfa, iobenguane
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See also the October issue of the Australian Adverse Drug Reactions
Bulletin Vol 23 No 5

<http://www.tga.gov.au/adr/aadrb/aadr0410.htm&gt;

* Australian experience with pneumococcal conjugate vaccine
* Warnings for high dose tricyclic antidepressants
* Terbinafine and blood dyscrasias
* Cholinesterase inhibitors and cardiac arrhythmias
Quinine indications - cramps deleted