Definitions
Provides information on terms such as 'safety alerts' and 'black triangles'
Side effects, also known as adverse drug reactions (ADRs), are unwanted symptoms that are linked with taking a medicine. They can range from mild, for e...
Wed, 1 Nov, 2017 at 3:53 PM
Discontinued products are medicines that are no longer marketed. Pharmaceutical companies will often leave their SmPCs and PILs for discontinued medicine...
Thu, 26 Oct, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Some Summaries of Product Characteristics (SmPCs) and Patient Information Leaflets (PILs) have an inverted black triangle symbol  displayed at the top...
Thu, 26 Oct, 2017 at 10:19 AM
Occasionally the medicines regulators (the European Medicines Agency, EMA, or the Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Authority, MHRA) issue spec...
Thu, 1 Sep, 2016 at 10:42 AM
For some medicines, the pharmaceutical company has a regulatory obligation to produce information for healthcare professionals and/or patients that will m...
Thu, 1 Sep, 2016 at 10:51 AM
PIL stands for Patient Information Leaflet (known as Package Leaflet or PL) and is the leaflet that is included in the pack with a medicine. The PIL...
Fri, 9 Sep, 2016 at 5:08 PM
SmPC, stands for Summary of Product Characteristics. The SmPC is used by healthcare professionals, such as doctors, nurses and pharmacists, and explains h...
Thu, 26 Oct, 2017 at 10:17 AM