Pharmacists warned on pholcodine cough mixtures

Anaesthetists are calling for a ban, or an upschedule to Prescription Only, for cough medicines containing pholcodine Dr Paul McAleer, a specialist anaesthetist and chair of the multidisciplinary organisation The Australian and New Zealand Anaesthetic Allergy Group, told the AJP that pharmacists may be unaware that the mixtures are believed to be linked to a