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FDA Approves First-of-its-Kind Drug to Treat Rare Blood Disorder

...en-year period of exclusive marketing to the first manufacturer who obtains marketing approval for a designated orphan product. About one person out of a million people will be diagnosed with PNH. Source-Bio-Bio Technology...

FDA Requests Label Change for All Sleep Disorder Drug Products

...ing revisions, FDA has requested that each product manufacturer send letters to health care providers to notify them about the new warnings. Manufacturers will begin sending these letters to providers starting this week. In addition, FDA has requested that manufacturers of sedative-hypnotic products develop Pa...

UK Study Wants Uniformity in Child Heart Drug Doses

...hed and water added, or obtained from a "specials" manufacturer in liquid form. The survey conducted by the Glenfield Hospital in Leicester, found only four pharmacies dispensed captopril tablets for crushing and dissolving in water. The other 22 used nine different liquid formulations of the drug, which came ...

New Zealand’s Pharmac Subsidies Two More HIV Drug

...e to access it sooner due to delays in Pharmac and manufacturer Gilead reaching a suitable funding compromise." Smythe reports HIV as a complex virus, which changes rapidly and necessitates new medications, to be made available to sufferers quickly, after testing and approval. "Delays of this kind can affect ...

How to Keep Away from Dust Allergy?

...puter or cell phone, one may check out whether the manufacturer has avoided using PBDEs....

Banned Additives Found in Children’s Medicine

...ealthcare products Regulatory Agency said that the manufacturer should justify the function and usefulness of these additives before they apply for a license. The Proprietary Association of Great Britain which represents the drug manufacturer’s association said that small amounts of artificial sweeteners and fl...

Time Dependent Medical Devices in Danger –hospitals and Individuals Warne

... they do, they are advised to contact the device's manufacturer to see if a patch is needed to update the software. ANN...

The World's First Digital Insulin Pen With a Memory Launched

...ients who require timely insulin injections. The manufacturer said, “ the pen was designed to meet the needs of people with diabetes who take several shots of mealtime insulin each day." The unique pen memory device can help the patient to know the previous and the next injection time thus preventing addition...

Merck Announces Plans for Licensing Atripla Widely in Developing World

...voluntary license for the product to South African manufacturer Aspen in 2004. According to the Treatment Action Campaign, Aspen’s version of tenofovir was already under fast track review by South Africa’s Medicines Control Council in June 2006. The combination of efavirenz, tenofovir and emtricitabine has bee...

A New Guide to Choosing the Right Vitamin Supplement

... Program (USP-DSVP) mark, which indicates that the manufacturer has complied with certain standards. Consider safe levels. All dietary supplements have a “Supplement Facts” label that lists the percentage of the daily value (DV) of each nutrient per serving, as well as the actual amount of each. Multivitamin a...

Tea Tree Oil-containing Beauty Products may Contribute to MRSA Increase

...ies. However, there is no legislation-requiring manufacturer to state the concentration of the oil in any of the products. According to the researchers, low dose tea tree oil found in beauty products, which is not strong enough to kill the microbes, actually turns on their defense system, resulting in toughe...

Consumers Warned of Using Cat Food Due to Salmonella Contamination

...h distributors and internet sales, nationwide. The manufacturer declined to recall this product despite several requests by FDA that it do so. Consumers who have purchased this product should not feed it to their pets, but should instead dispose of it in a safe manner (e.g., in a securely covered trash receptac...

FDA Clears Critical Limb-Saving Vascular Device

...litate this accelerated review process, the device manufacturer worked in close collaboration with FDA's Division of Cardiovascular Devices after discussion of the need for the device with the U.S. Air Force. There are currently no other devices specifically available for treating injuries of this nature. Sourc...

Pharma Major Ind-Swift to Enter US, Japan

...US$1.3 billion and Ind-Swift is the second largest manufacturer of the medicine. The US is the biggest generic drug market in the world. He said Ind-Swift was also tying up with top US based generic and biotechnology companies for its future expansion plans in North America, adding that the company was at an ad...

New Inhaler is Child's Play

...ance, Activaero, in collaboration with UK plastics manufacturer RPC Formatec, has developed a device that incorporates a silicone balloon within a transparent plastic chamber, which is used as a reservoir for the aerosolised drug. An MDI device is used to fill the balloon through the mouthpiece, the volume of ...

Two Brands of Pesto Recalled in Quebec, Ontario

The Quebec manufacturer is voluntarily recalling two types of pesto sold in Ontario and Quebec following the warning given by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency to Canadian// consumers not to eat two kinds of pesto – not to eat the Arugula and Blue Cheese pesto and Pesto R...

Medicine Information Out of Date

...d in relation to pregnancy. Currently, a drug’s manufacturer or sponsor is responsible for keeping PI up to date – a situation Australian Prescriber editor Dr John Dowden said may not guarantee timely and accurate revisions. In an editorial in the same issue of the MJA, Dr Dowden suggested a ‘use-by date’ f...

A New Drug To Address Canine Obesity

...obesity in the United States.// Pfizer, the drug manufacturer has made a new weight-reducing drug named Slentrol to control obesity in dogs. Nowadays as the owners work late hours, the dogs lounge around all day and the lack of exercise coupled with the fatty food they get to eat makes them obese. “This is ...

Free Plan B Faces Controversy

...cross the U.S buys ECP from Barr Laboratories, the manufacturer of Plan B, at preferentially discounted rates. Planned Parenthood then distributes these ECP for free in an effort to educate the public. This has made many organizations aghast, as they feel that this may trigger more risky sexual behavior, involvin...

Tamiflu: Adverse Reaction Warning, ‘a Must’, Canada Tells Roce

... department, "Health Canada has requested that the manufacturer ... update the Canadian prescribing information for Tamiflu to include this new information." Further, Health Canada confirmed the receipt of 84 reports of Canadian patients suffering serious reactions to the drug, nearly ten of the instances repor...

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