The Food and Drug Administration has approved influenza vaccines for the 2010-2011 flu season that protect against three influenza strains, including the 2009 H1N1 virus, the agency announced July 30.
ADELPHI, Md. (EGMN) A Food and Drug Administration advisory panel on July 29 voted 7 to 6 that a specific hemodynamic measure of response to drugs approved for pulmonary arterial hypertension in adults could be used to demonstrate the drugs efficacy in children with the disease, and to determine dosing in children.
COLLEGE PARK, Md. (EGMN) The Food and Drug Administrations Cardiovascular and Renal Drugs Advisory Committee on July 28 voted 7-1 to recommend approval of the platelet inhibitor ticagrelor to treat nonST elevation myocardial infarction and ST-elevation myocardial infarction in patients intended to receive primary coronary intervention or who would be managed medically.
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Extending the time window for giving the recombinant tissue plasminogen activator alteplase toischemic stroke patients has increased the percentage of patients who are eligible to receive the thrombolytic therapy without causing treatment delays, according to a study published online July 27 in Lancet Neurology.
A Rhode Island Department of Health investigation into the use of unapproved versions of common intrauterine devices has prompted the Food and Drug Administration to launch its own probe, and warn doctors against purchasing IUDs that have not received specific FDA approval.
WASHINGTON (EGMN) Direct-to-consumer genetic tests are deceptively marketed and often give misleading results that are of little or no practical use, said the U.S. Government Accountability Office in a report released on July 22 at a hearing of the House Energy and Commerce Committees Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations.
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High-density lipoprotein cholesterol concentrations are inversely associated with risk for cardiovascular events, but this association does not persist in patients who achieve very low concentrations of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol on statin therapy, according to an analysis of data from the JUPITER trial.
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