Probe launched after tête-à-tête with French counterpart ANSM, whose ‘red box’ warning will be slapped on all finasteride 1 mg packaging next month March 5, 2023 Dear Friends: The British are coming—hopefully with a PFS-awareness program on par with that of the French. Dr. White does right According to a February 16 memo from Amelia […]
Stricken US college student corroborates red flag raised to 29,000 pharmacists Feb. 27, 2023 Dear Friends: Spraying finasteride on your scalp instead of ingesting it is no guarantee you won’t develop post-finasteride syndrome (PFS). So cautions Germany’s oldest and most widely read pharmaceutical journal. So, too, an American college senior who says his academic, social […]
Dec. 4, 2022 Dear Friends: French PFS awareness is going high-tech. ANSM, the Gallic nation’s drug-regulatory authority (DRA), last week unveiled plans to add a so-called “red-box” warning—that includes a QR code—on all finasteride 1 mg products in 2023. Intended to “reinforce information on adverse effects” of Propecia and generics, the warning reads: This medication […]
‘How-to’ video encourages reporting of finasteride ADRs to Ministry of Health July 13, 2022 Dear Friends: France’s National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products (ANSM) last week published a dossier of educational materials on the growing number of adverse drug reactions (ADRs) to finasteride 1 mg, as experienced by men currently suffering […]
June 27, 2022 Dear Friends: The PFS Foundation has launched an interactive map plotting all the nations known to have issued warnings of finasteride’s potential to cause persistent adverse reactions, aka post-finasteride syndrome (PFS). Fifty-three nations, from Argentina to the United States, currently comprise our PFS Global Warning Map. Each links to a table entry […]
Separately, safety signal of causal link between finasteride and diabetes mellitus issued by Saudi FDA in 2021 March 2, 2022 Dear Friends: In a confidential 2018 letter to health care professionals, Merck & Co.’s Saudi Arabian subsidiary warned that finasteride patients should be carefully monitored for psychiatric symptoms including anxiety, depression and suicidal ideation. Furthermore, […]