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Civil Rights and Medical Leaders Call for Social Justice in Health Care

...Although the Food and Drug Administration approved bidil in 2005, the use of bidil in Black patients with chronic heart failure is st...d the challenges of advocating for the addition of bidil to formularies across the nation. He praised the l...
BiDil in Medical Technology

Study: Identical Doses of BiDil Components Are Not Bioequivalent to the Fixed Dose Combination-BiDil-Used in A-HeFT

NEW ORLEANS, La.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mar 26, 2007 - A study comparing the formulations of isosorbide dinitrate (ISDN) and hydralazine (HYD) used in V-HeFT I and V-HeFT II, and BiDil, the proprietary fixed dose combination, used in the African American Heart Failure Trial (A-HeFT) demonstrated no bioe...

Gene Chips to Detect CYP Variations: A New Step Toward Customized Medical Therapy.

... Michael S. Singer, M.D., Ph.D. Contributing Editor Harvard Medical School The FDA approval of bidil for heart failure in African American patients has underscored the concept that two patients can respond differently to the same medication. This con...
BiDil in Biological Technology

Symposium examines the effect of race on genetics and disease

...turer NitroMed. NitroMed offers a drug called bidil for the treatment of heart failure. The FDA initially rejected bidil because NitroMed could not demonstrate its effecti...acks, Kahn said. NitroMed then sought approval for bidil as a drug for African Americans. And the FDA did a...
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