Topic: Food and Drug Administration
(Reuters) - U.S. health regulators have approved an expanded label for Merck & Co's treatment for HIV for use with other antiretroviral drugs in children and adolescents.The safety and effectiveness of the drug was evaluated in a clinical trial of 96 children ...
US regulators on Wednesday rejected a drug company's request to make emergency contraception available over the counter to consumers of all ages instead of by prescription to those under 17.The rare move, which saw one government secretary overrule another at the 11th ...
A new drug, rilpivirine, can add powerfully to the combination of medications used to control HIV for first-time patients, researchers conclude in Friday's issue of The Lancet.Rilpivirine, marketed by pharmaceutical firm Tibotec under the brand name of Edurant, is both safe and ...
The US government said Tuesday it is taking steps to remove from the market a host of online products that promise to cure HIV, herpes, chlamydia and other sexually transmitted diseases.The products, mainly sold on the Internet but also available in some ...
Health officials in Britain announced on Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first timeHealth officials in Britain announced on Sunday that gay men will soon be allowed to donate blood for the first time. There's ...
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - An analysis of 26 clinical trials found no higher risk of heart attacks with AIDS drug abacavir compared with other HIV medicines, U.S. health officials said on Tuesday.The Food and Drug Administration reviewed data on abacavir after studies showed ...
The FDA has approved Egrifta for the treatment of HIV lipodystrophy.. "The FDA recognizes the need for therapies to treat patients with HIV-lipodystrophy," says Curtis Rosebraugh, MD, MPH, director of the FDA's Office of Drug Evaluation, in a news release. It's not ...
Tenofovir disoproxil fumarate ( TDF or PMPA ), marketed by Gilead Sciences under the trade name Viread , belongs to a class of antiretroviral drug s known as nucleotide analogue reverse transcriptase inhibitor s (nRTIs), which block reverse transcriptase , an enzyme ...
Stavudine (2'-3'-didehydro-2'-3'-dideoxythymidine, d4T , brand name Zerit ) is a nucleoside analog reverse transcriptase inhibitor (NARTI) active against HIV .d4T was first synthetized in the sixties by Jerome Horwitz . Oral account of the history of AZT , d4T and ddC by ...
Egrifta (tesamorelin) has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat fat deposits caused by HIV-related lipodystrophy. Egrifta's safety and effectiveness were studied in two clinical trials involving 816 men and women infected with HIV. Those who received Egrifta ...
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