The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved a new use for TOPAMAX (topiramate) Tablets and TOPAMAX (topiramate capsules) Sprinkle Capsules as initial monotherapy in patients 10 years of age and older with partial-onset or primary generalized tonic-clonic seizures.
If you’re taking your infant or toddler on a plane trip, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center offers these safety tips:
Under the Food and Drug Administration’s (FDA) “Consumer Health for Better Nutrition Initiative,” the Agency is announcing the results of a review of qualified health claims that green tea may reduce the risk of certain types of cancer. Based on a systematic evaluation of the available scientific data, the FDA intends to consider exercising its enforcement discretion for the following qualified health claims for breast and prostate cancer:
A Stanford University School of Medicine study using new measures of heart disease risk shows that gastric bypass surgery reduces the risk of heart disease even more than previously believed. The researchers say the finding underscores the value of the surgery for extremely overweight people, whose obesity puts them in danger of heart attack, stroke and other cardiovascular illness.
In a letter sent to the Food and Drug Administration, the American Academy of Dermatology Association (AADA) called on the FDA to halt Internet sales of isotretinoin, commonly known as Accutane. To assist government efforts, the AADA is providing the FDA with a preliminary list of Internet sites from which isotretinoin can be purchased.
Researchers may have defined a safer and less expensive way to determine the presence of food allergy in children, according to new research in the Journal of Allergy & Clinical Immunology (JACI). The JACI is the peer-reviewed scientific journal of the American Academy of Allergy, Asthma & Immunology (AAAAI).
The only advice doctors can give to the 4 percent of Americans with potentially life-threatening food allergies is to avoid the culprit food, often nuts or shellfish. But that may change as researchers in a new Food Allergy Research Consortium, announced, strive to develop therapies to treat and prevent food allergy.
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced the tentative approval of two applications for nevirapine tablets manufactured by Ranbaxy Laboratories Limited, Guragon, India and Aurobindo Pharma Limited, Hyderabad, India. These are the first generic versions of Viramune Tablets manufactured by Boehringer Ingelheim. These products will now be available for consideration for purchase under the President?s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the tentative approval of efavirenz tablets manufactured by Aurobindo Pharma LTD. of Hyderabad, India. This product is the first tentatively approved generic version of Sustiva Tablets (manufactured by Bristol-Myers Squibb). Efavirnez will now be available for consideration for purchase under the President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief (PEPFAR).
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved BiDil (bye-DILL), a drug for the treatment of heart failure in self-identified black patients, representing a step toward the promise of personalized medicine.