Health Warnings

Follow the links below to find information about health warnings, including warnings about diseases, medicines, drugs, and products that might have adverse health consequences.

Reviewed June 2010

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Title:   Safety alerts and advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to safety alerts and advisory statements about medicines and medical devices in Australia.
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Counterfeit Viagra (sildenafil) 100mg tablets
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The TGA is urgently investigating the source of the counterfeit Viagra (sildenafil) that has been supplied in Australia and has entered the wholesale/pharmacy supply chain.
Date:   Jun 2010
Title:   Media releases on arbovirus and malaria related matters
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   This page provides a list of arbovirus and malaria related media releases.
Date:   Apr 2010
Title:   UV alert
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   The SunSmart UV Alert is a tool you can use to protect yourself from UV radiation. It tells you the time during the day that you need to be SunSmart.
Date:   Feb 2010
Title:   SunSmart UV Alert
Publisher:   Cancer Council Victoria
Description:   Information about the SunSmart UV Alert, when and where it is issued, and how to read and use.
Date:   Oct 2009
Title:   Smoking and tobacco
Publisher:   The Cancer Council Australia
Description:   Here you will find information on the effects of smoking, and details of The Cancer Council's work to reduce the harm caused by tobacco.
Date:   Aug 2009
Title:   Treadmill safety
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Over the last 3 years more than 100 serious accidents associated with treadmills have occurred in Australian homes.
Date:   Jul 2010
Title:   Babies' dummies - safety alert
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   Dummies are designed to comfort and settle babies. However they can be a hazard to babies and toddlers.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Baby bath aids - safety alert
Publisher:   Child and Youth Health - CYH (South Australia)
Description:   The Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) has issued a safety alert about baby bath aids.
Date:   Jul 2009
Title:   Media release. Increased public health response in Victoria
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Australian Health Protection Committee (AHPC) and the Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, have advised that it is appropriate to raise the pandemic response to a modified SUSTAIN response for Victoria while keeping the national level at CONTAIN for the other states and territories.
Date:   Jun 2009
Title:   Media release. Alert level raised to 'CONTAIN'
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jim Bishop, has advised that it is appropriate to raise Australia's pandemic alert level to CONTAIN.
Date:   May 2009
Title:   Tobacco - Health warnings
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   From 1 March 2006, tobacco products imported and manufactured for retail in Australia are to be printed with the new health warnings. These warnings provide smokers with information on an expanded range of health effects. In the case of cigarette packs, health warnings now occupy 30% of the front and 90% of the back of pack, with a graphic appearing on both front and back.
Date:   Mar 2009
Title:   Alerts and advisories: Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters (PICC lines)
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   The Therapeutic Goods Administration is urgently investigating reports from Queensland Health of adverse events associated with the use of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter (PICC) lines in Queensland. The reports follow an initial investigation of an incident involving a 5 year old child at Townsville Hospital.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Hot/cold gel packs - safety alerts & advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to alerts and advisory statements about hot/cold gel packs.
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   Heparin products - safety alerts & advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to alerts and advisory statements about products containing heparin
Date:   Feb 2009
Title:   FAISD handbook: handbook of first aid instructions, safety directions, warning statements and general safety precautions for agricultural and veterinary chemicals
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   A consolidation of the First Aid Instructions, Warning Statements and General Safety Precautions applicable to Agricultural and Veterinary Chemicals and Products, together with Safety Directions for those Products.
Date:   Jan 2009
Title:   Diethylstilboestrol (DES) - safety alerts & advisory statements
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   Links to alerts and advisory statements about Diethylstilboestrol (DES)
Date:   Apr 2008
Title:   Zolpidem ("Stilnox") - updated information - February 2008
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing
Description:   As a response to these observed adverse effects, significant changes have been made to the Product Information (PI) and Consumer Medicine Information (CMI) documents for products containing zolpidem.
Date:   Feb 2008
Title:   High-risk medication alert: intravenous potassium chloride
Publisher:   Australian Prescriber
Description:   The Australian Council for Safety and Quality in Health Care has issued a high-risk medication alert for intravenous potassium chloride. This alert contains recommendations for prescribing, storage, preparation and administration of intravenous potassium chloride.
Date:   Feb 2005
Title:   Review of SV40 contamination of polio vaccine - alerts & advisories
Publisher:   Australian Government Department of Health and Ageing. Therapeutic Goods Administration
Description:   The Therapeutic Goods Administration commissioned an external expert in the field of infectious disease to review the published literature concerning the human health risk of vaccines contaminated with SV40 in response to media claims that some batches produced in Australia from 1957 to 1963 were contaminated.
Date:   Dec 2004

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