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Vandetanib Study Enters Third Phase

The Phase 3 study of the drug Vandetanib, marketed by London company AstraZeneca PLC// has begun. The study will cover 508 patients of lung cancer in whom the first-line treatment has failed. The study extends over 20 countries and 20 sites. The patients who have a recorded a case of locally a...

French Women can Get Fat

...nless profound changes are made in the way food is marketed and processed, the tide of the obesity epidemic will just rush forward, causing millions worldwide to suffer an early death or disability. There are other European countries, which have prepared the way for France. Sweden and Norway forbid broa...

Widely Used Hepatitis B Drug Spurs HIV Drug Resistance

... even death from liver failure. Entecavir, first marketed in March 2005, has been a leading treatment for chronic forms of hepatitis B, which can be fatal to almost a quarter of those infected if it is left untreated. The drug’s label information currently states that is has no clinical effects on HIV. A...

Fight Nicotine With Brisk Walking

...as found in a drug, it would have been immediately marketed as an effective tool to give up smoking. Taylor and his team analyzed 12 different papers which discussed about the relationship between exercises and nicotine withdrawal. The emphasis was on exercises that could be done outside a gym like walking,...

90 Brands of Pet Food Recalled from the Market Following Death of 10 Animals

..., the manufacturers of many varieties of pet food, marketed under several brand names has recalled 50 brands o...le products, usually sold in cans and pouches, are marketed across the nation by popular retailers - Wal-Mart, Safeway and PetSmart. The Food and Drug Admini...

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

...lar entity containing an ingredient not previously marketed in the United States. "This product is important in that it offers a treatment other than blood transfusion that may help this small population of patients who are often very ill," said Steven Galson, M.D., M.P.H., director, Center for Drug Evaluat...

NIH Announces Phase III Clinical Trial of Creatine for Parkinson's Disease

...ogressive deterioration in function. Creatine is marketed as a nutritional supplement. Studies have suggested that it can improve the function of mitochondria, which produce energy inside cells. It also may act as an antioxidant that prevents damage from compounds that are harmful to cells in the brain. In ...

Study Finds No Conclusive Benefit from Treating Kleptomania

...s. The medication in the trial was escitalopram, marketed as. The drug belongs to a class of antidepressants known as selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors, and earlier studies have suggested that SSRIs can be effective in treating some impulse control disorders, such as skin picking. In an earlier, non-b...

FDA Announces Voluntary Withdrawal of Pergolide Products

...withdrawn are Permax, the trade name for pergolide marketed by Valeant Pharmaceuticals, and two generic versions of pergolide manufactured by Par and Teva. Pergolide is in a class of medications called dopamine agonists and is used with levodopa and carbidopa to manage the symptoms (tremors and slowness of mo...

Ibuprofen Risky for Heart Patients?

...ecoxib, a nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drug, was marketed under the brand name Vioxx by Merck for treatment of osteoarthritis, and related acute pain conditions. Worldwide, over 80 million people were prescribed rofecoxib at some time. On September 30, 2004, Merck voluntarily withdrew rofecoxib from the...

United Biotech Launches New Oncology Division

...ket molecules that are currently being exclusively marketed by multinationals. The company also intends to offer the products at a much lower price than that offered by the multinationals. “To funnel our short term growth plan in the oncology segment we aim to tap the global oncology generics business opp...

FDA Announces to Companies to Stop Marketing Products Containing Trimethobenzamide

...the wake of on-going initiative to ensure that all marketed U.S. drugs have required marketing approval. The...vidence of effectiveness. These products have been marketed under various names, including Tigan, Tebamide, T-Gen, Trimazide, and Trimethobenz. FDA urges con...

FDA Urgently Warns Consumers About Health Risks of Potentially Contaminated Olives

...ives had been distributed to wholesalers, who have marketed them nationally to restaurants and retail stores. FDA concluded that additional warnings are needed because, to date, the company has not contacted importers with specific instructions on the recall. In addition to re-emphasizing its warning to co...

Study Finds No Survival Benefit for Gastric Cancer Patients

...ancer and other life-threatening diseases could be marketed without being shown to be beneficial in a rigorously designed and conducted trial such as this study's authors have described. This trial provides an important reminder of how much patients have to lose should such efforts prevail," the authors write...

FDA Announces Audio Broadcasts on Emerging Drug Safety Information

...speed its communications concerning the safety of marketed medications when unexpected adverse events are reported to FDA. The broadcasts are an addition to FDA's traditional print- and Web-based public health advisories (PHAs) and anyone can subscribe to them for free at http://www.fda.gov/cder/drug/podcast...

Art of Establishing a Bond to Sell a Brand – Medical Reps Show the Wa

...newer ones. A case in point is the aggressively marketed drug Vioxx, which was found to have adverse side effects after it hit the market. The drug did not have years of evidence to back its safety. AV/B...

U.S Officials Worried Over Failure In Preventing Food Contamination

...es of better quality control by the companies that marketed the controversial spinach-Natural Selection Foods, the peanut butter – Con-Agra foods, as well as Menu Foods which had to recall its pet food after it was found contaminated with bad wheat gluten. Says Bart Stupak, chairman of the Oversight and Inv...

Multiple Sclerosis Patients to Benefit With AVONEX(R) Nurse Services Program

...ssion of disability and reduce relapses. AVONEX is marketed internationally in more than 90 countries. AVONEX was the first treatment approved for patients who have their first clinical MS attack and have a brain MRI scan consistent with MS; this use was approved in Europe in 2002 and in the U.S. in 2003. ...

CELL THERAPEUTICS PAYS Heavily to Resolve Dispute FOR ALLEGED ILLEGAL MARKETING OF CANCER DRUG

..., the complaint states and claims that CTI falsely marketed the drug to doctors by suggesting that Trisenox was FDA-approved and listed as medically accepted in the compendia for other types of cancers. "Cell Therapeutics enriched itself at taxpayer expense by aggressively marketing this drug to doctors for...

Improved Meningitis Vaccine for Africa Expected to End Deadly Scourge

...lmost 20 times higher than those obtained with the marketed polysaccharide (un-conjugated) vaccine. This means that protection from serogroup A meningococcal meningitis is expected to last for several years. "This important study brings real hope that the lives of thousands of children, teenagers, and young...

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