Hepatitis B Immune Globulin Cangene

HepaGam B® [Hepatitis B Immune Globulin (Human) Injection] contains purified antibodies specific for the hepatitis B surface antigen (HBsAg). * It is approved in Canada and the United States f...

Tumor Necrosis Factor TNF Products

Tumor Necrosis Factor (TNF) and TNF receptor antagonists and agonists used to treat TNF-mediated inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis or to treat cancer. TNF blockers are the commerc...

What is the Gleason Score?

The most common system to evaluate and describe prostate cancer currently in use is the Gleason grading system. After a biopsy, the pathologist assigns a primary grade from 1 to 5, with 5 being the...

Neurotrophic Growth Factors NGF BDNF CNTF

Early clinical trials with classical neurotrophic growth factor proteins such as NGF, BDNF, CNTF have failed for various reasons including safety, efficacy and convenience of administration as well as...

CD20 Antibodies

The chimeric anti-CD20 antibody rituximab (Rituxan & MabThera) from Biogen Idec and Genentech/Roche is one of the world’s commercially most successful antibodies (2007 sales of over US$ 5 bl...

LILLY (ELI) & COMPANY - Recommended Indication for Trajenta Type 2 Diabetes

CHMP recommends indication for the use of Trajenta® (linagliptin) tablets as add-on therapy to insulin in adults with Type 2 Diabetes in Europe Proposed indication further expands the use oflinagl...

FDA Refuses ACS Indication for Rivaroxaban--for Now

For now, the US FDA has failed to approve the factor Xa inhibitor rivaroxaban for the additional indication of ACS, instead issuing a "complete response letter." The drug narrowly missed becoming the...

FDA OKs Hep C Indication for Promacta

WASHINGTON (MedPage Today) -- The FDA has approved eltrombopag (Promacta) for the additional indication of treating low blood platelet counts in patients with chronic hepatitis C.

Bile duct cancer chosen as next indication for PCI Biotech

PCI Biotech (PCIB) the Norwegian biopharmaceutical company, reported today that it has chosen bileduct cancer as the next indication for the use of its PCI (photochemical internalisation) localised ca...

FDA Approves New Indication For Prolia

Amgen today announced the FDA approved a new indication for Prolia (denosumab) as a treatment to increase bone mass in men with osteoporosis at high risk for fracture.

GSK announces submission for a new indication for Synflorix™ in Europe

GSK has submitted a regulatory application in the European Union seeking approval of an additional indication for Synflorix™...

Novartis Files For Additional Pediatric Indication For Asthma Drug Xolair

Novartis Pharma announced on Oct. 17 that it has filed for a pediatric indication for Xolair (omalizumab recombinant) 75 mg and 150 mg formulations.

Botox Adds Therapeutic Indication For Idiopathic Overactive Bladder

The FDA approval for idiopathic OAB follows a narrower indication for OAB related to neurological diseases such as multiple sclerosis or spinal cord injury.

A feasibility study on the expanded indication for endoscopic submucosal dissection of early gastric cancer.

BACKGROUND: Endoscopic submucosal dissection (ESD) is the standard treatment for selected cases of early gastric cancer (EGC). Evolution of ESD techniques and accessories has expanded treatment indica...

Unnecessary arrhythmia monitoring and underutilization of ischemia and QT interval monitoring in current clinical practice: baseline results of the Practical Use of the Latest Standards for Electrocardiography trial.

PURPOSE: The purpose of the study was to examine the appropriate use of arrhythmia, ischemia, and QTc interval monitoring in the acute care setting. METHODS: We analyzed baseline data of the Practical...

Colchicine's Other Indication - Effect of FDA Action.

To the Editor: The decision by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve and grant exclusive licensing of an expensive brand-name formulation (Colcrys) of the decades-old generic drug colchici...

FDA approval of expanded age indication for a tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine.

On July 8, 2011, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved an expanded age indication for the tetanus toxoid, reduced diphtheria toxoid and acellular pertussis vaccine (Tdap) Boostrix (GlaxoSmit...

Assessment of a set of FRAX(®)-based criteria for the indication of bone densitometry in Spanish postmenopausal women.

To assess the effect of the application in routine clinical practice of a proposal of thresholds for the indication of bone densitometry in Spanish postmenopausal women.