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FDA Medwatch Alert: FDA Alerts Health Care Professionals and Patients to a Voluntary Recall of Chantix (varenicline) to the Warehouse Level

[7/02/2021] FDA is alerting patients and health care professionals to Pfizer’s voluntary recall of nine lots of the smoking cessation drug, varenicline (brand name Chantix), to the warehouse level. T...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Chantix (varenicline) and Zyban (bupropion): Drug Safety Communication - Mental Health Side Effects Revised

ISSUE: Based on an FDA review of a large clinical trial that FDA required the drug companies to conduct, FDA determined the risk of serious side effects on mood, behavior, or thinking with the...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Chantix (Varenicline): Safety Communication - Updated Safety Review On The Risk of Cardiovascular Adverse Events

ISSUE: FDA is informing the public about the results of a large, combined analysis (called a meta-analysis) of clinical trials that compared patients who received the smoking cessation drug Chantix...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Varenicline (marketed as Chantix) and Bupropion (marketed as Zyban, Wellbutrin, and generics)

FDA notified healthcare professionals and patients that it has required the manufacturers of the smoking cessation aids varenicline (Chantix) and bupropion (Zyban and generics) to add new Boxed...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Varenicline (marketed as Chantix)

[Posted 02/01/2008] FDA informed healthcare professionals and consumers of important revisions to the WARNINGS and PRECAUTIONS sections of the prescribing information for Chantix regarding serious...

FDA Medwatch Alert: Chantix (Varenicline)

[Posted 11/20/2007] FDA informed healthcare professionals of reports of suicidal thoughts and aggressive and erratic behavior in patient who have taken Chantix, a smoking cessation product. There are...

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