Thursday, November 3rd, 2011
Federal health officials have approved a first-of-a-kind artificial heart valve that can be implanted without major surgery, offering a new treatment option for patients who are too old or frail for the chest-cracking procedure currently used.
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Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011
Good news for anyone worried about skin cancer with the FDA approving Melafind, which the manufacturers describe as a groundbreaking technology for detecting melanomas. Darrell S. Rigel, MD, Clinical Professor of Dermatology at New York University Medical School confirmed the news : "MelaFind is a groundbreaking technology and represents ...
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2011
As of 21st Oct Onfi (clobazam) tablets are FDA (U.S. Food and Drug Administration) approved as an add on treatment for seizures caused by Lennox-Gastaut syndrome in adults and children aged 2 years and older. The disease effects fewer than 200,000 people in the United States so it was granted ...
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Janssen Therapeutics, Division of Janssen Products, LP, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a label update for PREZISTA® (darunavir) tablets to include 192-week data from the ARTEMIS study. ARTEMIS evaluated the efficacy and safety of PREZISTA with ritonavir (r) vs. lopinavir/r in combination with ...
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Thursday, October 13th, 2011
Edgemont Pharmaceuticals, LLC, a neuroscience focused company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved its New Drug Application (NDA) for Fluoxetine Tablets 60 mg. Fluoxetine, originally marked in the U.S. under the brand name Prozac®, has become a widely-known and used treatment for Major Depressive Disorder, ...
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