News tagged with drug evaluation

Using economic evaluations for drug reimbursement decisions - what have we achieved?

Researchers at the University of York perform evaluations of the clinical and cost-effectiveness of drugs for the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE).

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 10, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US approves drug for middle-of-the-night insomniacs

The US Food and Drug Administration, for the first time, approved Wednesday medication specifically designed for those who wake up in the middle of the night and cannot fall back to sleep.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

US approves second new hepatitis C drug

The US Food and Drug Administration on Monday approved Incivek to treat hepatitis C when taken along with the current two-drug regimen, marking the second such drug approval this month.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 23, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US approves new HIV drug

The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved a new drug, Edurant, to fight HIV in combination with other antiretrovirals already on the market.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

created May 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US regulators approve new hepatitis C drug

US regulators on Friday approved the first new treatment for hepatitis C in more than a decade, a Merck pharmaceutical known as Victrelis, to be taken with the current two-drug regimen.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 2

Lessons from major heart trial need implementation

A NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center review of almost 500,000 cardiac cases nationally shows that the clinically indicated medical therapy reported in a widely publicized study was lost in translation ...

Medicine & Health / Cardiology

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

US takes aim at purported sex disease 'cures'

The US government said Tuesday it is taking steps to remove from the market a host of online products that promise to cure HIV, herpes, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

FDA approves kidney cancer drug to treat brain tumors

The United States has approved a drug normally used for advanced kidney cancer to treat brain tumors caused by a rare genetic disease, US officials and the Swiss manufacturer said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 01, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

FDA may disclose more details on drug, food safety (Update)

(AP) -- The nation's top drug regulator proposed Wednesday to disclose more information about safety problems with the drugs and devices it rejects.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created May 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Review and approval of oncology and hematology drugs at FDA from 2005 to 2007

Over a two and half year period, beginning in 2005 when the U.S. Food and Drug Administration's oncology drug product's office began reviewing marketing applications, a total of 60 new oncology and hematology drugs were reviewed, ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jan 29, 2010 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Promising pharmaceutical agents emerge as sports doping products

Researchers from the German Sport University Cologne in Germany found that non-steroidal and tissue-selective anabolic agents such as Selective Androgen Receptor Modulators (SARMs) are being sold on the black market for their ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 19, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

'All-natural' sex pill contains Viagra chemical: FDA

The US food and drug safety watchdog warned Thursday that an over-the-counter men's sex aid, labeled as all-natural, contains a chemical similar to the active ingredient in Viagra and could be dangerous.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 2.4 / 5 (5) | comments 4

US Marshals seize sanitizer for bacteria problems

(AP) -- Officers with the U.S. Marshals Service have seized all skin sanitizers and skin protectants, including ingredients and components, at Clarcon Biological Chemistry Laboratory's facility in Roy, Utah, the Food and ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Aug 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Food and drug agency to study greater openness

(AP) -- The government's food and drug regulators want to open their files to the public.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Jun 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

FDA reversal OKs morphine painkiller for dying

(AP) -- A liquid morphine painkiller given by family caregivers to dying patients can remain on the market, federal regulators have decided after hearing protests over their decision to remove it. The Food and Drug Administration ...

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created Apr 09, 2009 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 2


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