News tagged with drug approval
National report shines light on lupus 50-year treatment drought
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Today, The Lewin Group, a national health care consulting firm, issued recommendations on ways to overcome the barriers that have obstructed lupus drug development resulting in no new drug approval for this disease in more ...
FDA approves cancer treatment for dogs
Jun 03, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug made specifically to treat cancer in dogs.
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EU regulators support pre-pandemic vaccine
Medicine & Health / Medications
Feb 24, 2008 |
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The European Medicines Agency has recommended the approval of a vaccine designed to help people build immunity against the deadly bird flu virus.
FDA approves new drug for deadly kidney cancer
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Mar 30, 2009 |
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(AP) -- A drug from Novartis has won U.S. approval as a treatment for patients with kidney cancer that has returned after treatment with older drugs.
ICT fails to accelerate drug approvals
Nov 19, 2009 |
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Drug approvals are taking just as long as they ever did despite increased expenditure on new information technology at the Food and drug Administration. So says a statistical analysis of approval intervals from 1997 to 2006, ...
Half of trials supporting FDA applications go unpublished
Sep 23, 2008 |
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Over half of all supporting trials for FDA-approved drugs remained unpublished 5 years after approval, says new research published in this week's PLoS Medicine. The most important trials determining efficacy, and those with s ...
Stanford researcher criticizes FDA plans to reduce oversight of off-label drug use
Apr 03, 2008 |
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Proposed guidelines from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration would allow companies to market more drugs for unapproved uses and are a step in the wrong direction, said a researcher from the Stanford University School of ...
Abbott, AstraZeneca seek cholesterol pill approval
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Jun 04, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Abbott Laboratories and AstraZeneca PLC on Thursday asked the Food and Drug Administration to approve a drug that combines their cholesterol pills TriLipix and Crestor.
Drug marketing techniques may be risking patient safety
Dec 03, 2008 |
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With new drugs being reviewed by regulatory agencies and then released onto the market faster than ever before, patients' safety is being compromised, warns a study published on bmj.com today.
FDA approves first drug for infantile spasms
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Aug 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- The Food and Drug Administration has approved the first drug to treat infantile spasms, a rare disorder that can cause hundreds of seizures per day in children less than a year old.
FDA OKs Amitiza for treatment of IBS-C
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Apr 30, 2008 |
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration announced approval of Amitiza (lubiprostone) to treat constipation associated with irritable bowel syndrome.
New drug development still takes 8 years despite faster FDA review, according to Tufts CSDD
Jan 08, 2009 |
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While the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Drug has quickened review and approval of new medicines, the complex nature of diseases for which new therapeutics are being developed has resulted in longer clinical development ...
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