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| Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy |
A severe form of epilepsy called Lennox-Gastaut syndrome will be treated with a new drug called Banzel, which has been approved by the Food and Drug Administration on Friday as an extra supplement against the terrible disease. The FDA approved the drug after several tests were made. Patients aged between 4 and 30 years old were the... |
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 Reports announce that the FDA has approved the antipsychotic aripiprazole (Abilify) as an add-on for patients whose major depressive disorder is not relieved by antidepressants alone.
Originally approved in 2002 for schizophrenia, as well as mixed and manic episodes in adults suffering from bipolar I disorder, aripiprazole is the first...
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 According to results from two large international studies,
patients with relapsed or refractory multiple myeloma, a cancer of the cells in
the bone marrow that make blood, who were treated with Revlimid (lenalidomide)
and dexamethasone had significantly improved progression-free and overall
survival compared with patients treated...
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 New media reports confirm that Novartis, the Swiss
pharmaceutical group, on Monday faced a fresh blow to prospects for its new
painkiller Prexige after UK, German and Austrian drug regulators suspended the
medicine on concerns over liver damage.
The move follows the decision by Australia to withdraw the
drug in August after side...
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 According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, Chantix,
Pfizer’s prescription drug for smoking cessation, may cause suicidal thoughts,
according to a statement issued yesterday by the federal agency.
Shares of New York City-based Pfizer Inc., which has about
2,000 employees in New Jersey, were down $0.30, or 1.3 percent, to...
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 According to the Biotechnology company Genentech Inc., its
cancer drug Avastin showed positive results in treating brain cancer over a
six-month period.
The company said a midstage study of Avastin showed that 36
percent of patients given the drug lived progression-free from relapsed
glioblastoma multiforme for six months....
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According to an announcement given by Bayer HealthCare
Pharmaceuticals and Onyx Pharmaceuticals, Inc.,
the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a supplemental
New Drug Application for Nexavar(R) (sorafenib) tablets for the treatment of
patients with unrespectable hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), or liver...
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 According to health officials, Takeda Pharmaceutical Co. planned
to launch print ads today, touting the safety of its diabetes drug Actos, just
days after the Food and Drug Administration slapped new safety warnings on
rival drug Avandia from GlaxoSmithKline PLC.
Full-page ads set to run in about 60 newspapers and in several
news...
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 According to a FDA (Food and Drug Administration ) report released on Thursday, Trasylol, a clotting drug used to prevent excessive bleeding during heart bypass surgery, increases the risk of death when compared with other drugs.
The Canadian trial for the drug manufactured by Bayer AG had to be stopped early due to an increase in...
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 According to an FDA (Food and Drug Administration) press
release on Wednesday, warning is being added to Cephalon Inc's drug Provigil
for excessive sleepiness because of the risk of serious skin rash and
psychiatric symptoms
Provigil is used to treat adults with narcolepsy and
obstructive sleep apnea who have difficulty...
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 According to a recent statement delivered by a researcher,
one in three patients with asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease is
unable to use an inhaler properly.
And the rate of errors was higher for older patients and those with more severe
disease, Siegfried Wieshammer, M.D., of Offenburg
Hospital in Offenburg,
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