Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy
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...

Banzel Drug Approved by FDA to Cure Severe Epilepsy
 
 

FDA Requires Black-Box Warnings For Epilepsy Drugs
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration intends to add firm warnings about suicidal behavior on the labels of 11 epilepsy medications, as indicated by files posted on the organization’s Web site. The FDA will require companies to bring the drugs’ labels up to date, in order to include black-box warnings, the most severe warnings...

FDA Requires Black-Box Warnings For Epilepsy Drugs

Cholesterol Drugs For Children
In line with new advisory by the American Academy of Pediatrics, kids as young as 8 will need to take drugs in order to prevent high cholesterol and heart disease in adults. The innovative new guidelines inform parents and pediatricians on how to protect high-risk kids for signs which they have already started to develop...

Cholesterol Drugs For Children

Possible Breakthrough On Heart Problems: Is Early Treatment The Key?
On Monday, the American Academy of Pediatrics came forward with some rather surprising guidance. For the first time ever, the Academy advised people to give eight-year-olds cholesterol-fighting drugs in order to prevent future heart conditions.According to Dr. Stephen Daniels, member of the academy's nutrition committee, the new advice...

Possible Breakthrough On Heart Problems: Is Early Treatment The Key?

Two Vaccines Licensed for Rotavirus
A new vaccine for rotavirus, which causes diarrhea and vomiting in children, was licensed by the Food and Drug Administration in April. The vaccine advisory committee agreed that the second vaccine should be added to the list of recommended vaccines for infants. The two-dose vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline and the three-dose...

Two Vaccines Licensed for Rotavirus

New Treatment Patch Protects Travelers from Diarrhoea
An experimental skin patch developed by US biotechnology company Iomai Corp. protected more than 70 percent of visitors to Mexico and Guatemala from traveler’s diarrhoea, an illness that sickens millions each year. People who travel to endemic areas often suffer from diarrhoea due to E-coli bacterium that is toxic to the...

New Treatment Patch Protects Travelers from Diarrhoea

Illegal Aphrodisiac "Love Stone" Kills a New York Man
A New York man died after he ate an illegal aphrodisiac derived from toad venom.According to the Associated Press, New York City’s poison control center issued a warning to people to stay away from the concoction after receiving a hospital report that a 35-year-old man who ingested the hard, brown substance died earlier this month. The...

Illegal Aphrodisiac "Love Stone" Kills a New York Man

The Federal Aviation Administration Bans the Use of Chantix
Pilots or air traffic controllers will no longer be allowed to use the anti-smoking drug Chantix. This appeal of the Federal Aviation Administration is argued by the side-effects of the drug, which have been discovered and announced in the last months. These negative influences on the human body may be a threat to the safe operation...

The Federal Aviation Administration Bans the Use of Chantix

GlaxoSmithKline's Prepandrix Vaccine Finally Approved by the EU
GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Europe's largest drugmaker, gained European Union approval for its pre-pandemic flu vaccine, Prepandrix. This vaccine is meant to prevent the deadly H5N1 virus. Prepandrix should be administrated before or in the early stages of a flu pandemic. It determines an immune response to the H5N1 strain of bird...

GlaxoSmithKline's Prepandrix Vaccine Finally Approved by the EU

FDA Warns of Fetal Risk with 2 Transplant Drugs
The Food and Drug Administration warned Friday about two drugs approved for use by organ transplant patients to prevent organ transplant injection. CellCept by Roche and Myfortic by Novartis can cause miscarriages and birth defects when used by pregnant women.It is also common practise to use these drugs “off-label” to treat other immune...

FDA Warns of Fetal Risk with 2 Transplant Drugs

Bayer Removes Trasylol from the American Market
A study showed that Trasylol, a heart-surgery drug produced by Bayer AG, raises the risk of death compared to two other competing medications. As a consequence, the company withdrew its remaining supplies of the drug from the U.S. market, as Reuters informs. The statement followed publication earlier on Wednesday of a Canadian...

Bayer Removes Trasylol from the American Market
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