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Aurobindo anti-hypertension capsules receive FDA approval

The USFDA has granted final approval to Aurobindo Pharma to produce and market Amlodipine Besylate and Benazepril Hydrochloride Capsules 2.5mg/10mg, 5mg/10mg, 5mg/20mg, 5mg/40mg, 10mg/20mg and 10mg/40...

GPhA: 'Up-scheduling' hydrocodone combos will impede patient access, won't curb abuse

Ahead of a two-day meeting of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee (DSaRM), in which regulators are seeking advice about whether to "up-schedule" hydrocodone combination medi...

DEA agent to FDA safety panel: Hydrocodone combos are 'killing us'

Drug safety advisers to the US FDA heard arguments from both ends of the spectrum on 24 January about the impact to patients and society if hydrocodone combination medicines, like Vicodin (acetaminop...

AAPA and AANP Comment on FDA Hydrocodone Recommendation

A recent recommendation by a Food and Drug Administration (FDA) panel about hydrocodone elicited responses from American Association of Nurse Practitioners president Angela Golden, DNP, FNP-C, FAANP,...

FDA panel votes for tougher restrictions on hydrocodone

(HealthDay)—A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel met Thursday and Friday to discuss the fate of certain painkillers that contain the opioid known as hydrocodone, concluding in a vote i...

Buy Pozen Ahead Of Key Medical Meetings

By Jason Napodano: By Jason Napodano, CFA In March 2012, Pozen (POZN) announced positive results from the company's two pivotal phase III clinical trials studying PA32540, a novel, coordinated-deli...

FDA panel backs tougher restrictions for hydrocodone products

FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee voted 19-10 on Friday that the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) reschedule hydrocodone combination products as class II scheduled dru...

Pharmaceutical Research: Engineered Andrographolide Nanoparticles Mitigate Paracetamol Hepatotoxicity in Mice

Type: Original PaperPurposeParacetamol (acetaminophen, APAP) overdose is often fatal due to progressive and irreversible hepatic necrosis. The aim of this work was to design Andrographolide (AG) loade...

Anomalous observations of hydrocodone in patients on oxycodone.

BACKGROUND: Urine drug monitoring is used by physicians treating chronic pain patients with opioid therapy. Patients are tested in part to insure that they are not taking other drugs. Therefore, the f...

A Prospective Randomized Study to Evaluate the Antipyretic Effect of the Combination of Acetaminophen and Ibuprofen in Neurological ICU Patients.

BACKGROUND: To compare the antipyretic effect of simultaneously administered acetaminophen (APAP) plus ibuprofen (IBU) to either APAP or IBU alone in critically ill febrile neurological and neurosurgi...

Effect of trifluoperazine on toxicity, HIF-1α induction and hepatocyte regeneration in acetaminophen toxicity in mice.

Oxidative stress and mitochondrial permeability transition (MPT) are important mechanisms in acetaminophen (APAP) toxicity. The MPT inhibitor trifluoperazine (TFP) reduced MPT, oxidative stress, and t...

Hydrocodone and morphine possess similar rewarding effects and reduce ERK and CREB phosphorylation in the nucleus accumbens.

The number of prescriptions for hydrocodone-containing opioid analgesics has greatly increased over the past decade. This increase has led to an associated enhancement in the non-medical use of hydroc...

A 1H NMR-Based Metabolomics Approach for Mechanistic Insight into Acetaminophen Induced Hepatotoxicity.

The widely used analgesic-antipyretic drug acetaminophen (APAP) is known to cause serious liver necrosis at high doses in man and experimental animals. For studies of toxic processes, 1H NMR spectrosc...