Vancomycin

Vancomycin is an antobiotic indicated for the treatment of serious, life-threatening infections by Gram-positive bacteria that are unresponsive to other less-toxic antibiotics. In particular, vancom...

Clinical Approvals - news, views, reports and blogs

Clinical trials are a set of procedures in medical research conducted to allow safety (or more specifically, information about adverse drug reactions and adverse effects of other treatments) and eff...

FDA approves tofacitinib for RA

FDA approved an NDA from Pfizer Inc. (NYSE:PFE) for Xeljanz tofacitinib to treat moderate to severe rheumatoid arthritis in adults with an inadequate response or intolerance to methotrexate. Xeljanz m...

Pfizer’s Tofacitinib Clears FDA Without Limited Indication

With FDA’s early approval of tofacitinib for rheumatoid arthritis – the first JAK inhibitor and, unlike the popular TNF inhibitors, an oral agent – the agency appears to have sided with Pfizer o...

Latest News From "The Pink Sheet" DAILY - Pfizer's Xeljanz Gets Approval For RA

Pfizer's Tofacitinib Clears FDA Without Limited Indication With FDA's early approval of tofacitinib for rheumatoid arthritis - the first JAK inhibitor and, unlike the popular TNF inhibitors, an oral a...

Tofacitinib Delay May Give FDA Time To Look At New Radiographic Data

FDA has extended the review deadline to look over requested data on tofacitinib, but Pfizer is also interested in turning over an interim analysis of the ORAL Start study, which provides radiographic...

Dynavax Announces FDA Advisory Committee Meeting Outcome for Heplisav

BERKELEY, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 11/15/12 -- Dynavax Technologies Corporation today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committe...

Titan Pharmaceuticals Announces FDA Advisory Committee Recommends Approval of Probuphine for the Treatment of Adult Patients With Opioid Dependence / Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee Meeting Voted in Favor of Approval Citing Favorable Benefit

SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/21/13 -- Titan Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (OTCBB: TTNP) today announced that the majority of Psychopharmacologic Drugs Advisory Committee (PDAC) of the U.S....

Department seeks lay member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition

The department is seeking to appoint a lay member of the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutriton (SACN). The position SACN is a UK wide advisory committee that advises UK health … Read more &#...

Pfizer Hopes Tofacitinib Delay Will Give FDA Time To Look At New Radiographic Data

FDA has extended the review deadline to look over requested data on tofacitinib, but Pfizer is also interested in turning over an interim analysis of the ORAL Start study, which provides radiographic...

European Society for Organ Transplantation Advisory Committee Recommendations on Generic Substitution of Immunosuppressive Drugs.

Effect of expanded US recommendations for seasonal influenza vaccination: comparison of two pediatric emergency departments in the United States and Canada.

Starting in the 2006/2007 influenza season, the US Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices expanded its recommendations for seasonal influenza vaccination to include healthy children aged 24-59 m...

Use of Anthrax Vaccine in the United States: Recommendations of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), 2009.

These recommendations from the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) update the previous recommendations for anthrax vaccine adsorbed (AVA) (CDC. Use of anthrax vaccine in the United Sta...

Tofacitinib in Active Ulcerative Colitis.

To the Editor: Sandborn et al. (Aug. 16 issue)(1) report that tofacitinib has efficacy in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. The authors note that Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors JAK1 and JAK3 are sur...

Tofacitinib in Active Ulcerative Colitis.

To the Editor: Sandborn et al. (Aug. 16 issue)(1) report that tofacitinib has efficacy in the treatment of ulcerative colitis. The authors note that Janus kinase (JAK) inhibitors JAK1 and JAK3 are sur...