A Mystery About Affymax & Its Anemia Drug Recall
Late yesterday, the FDA disclosed that Affymax and its marketing partner, Takeda Pharmaceuticals, issued a so-called voluntary recall of their Omontys medication, which is used to treat anemia in adult dialysis patients, after there were 19 reports of anaphylaxis, a serious and life-threatening allergic, at dialysis centers in the US. Three of the cases ended in death and several other patients required hospitalization (here is the FDA statement).
Not surprisingly, the recall is killing Affymax (AFFY) stock, since the drugmaker was hoping to penetrate a huge market dominated by billion-dollar-sellers such as Epogen and Ara...
Source: Pharmalot - February 25, 2013 Category: Pharma Commentators Authors: Ed Silverman Tags: Uncategorized Affymax Amgen Anemia Aranesp Biosimilars Epogen FDA JJ Johnson & Johnson Omontys Procrit Takeda Pharmaceuticals Source Type: blogs
Flu Shot?
I was told many years ago that I shouldn't get flu shots because I'm allergic to eggs (anaphylactic reaction, several times), but I keep reading conflicting advice. My office partner was out with the flu last week and I don't want to catch it. Today I read that it would be fine to get a flu shot, but I should get it at an allergist's office. Oh for Pete's sake. I've got a call in to my doc to get... (Source: Dr. X's Free Associations)
Source: Dr. X's Free Associations - January 21, 2013 Category: Psychiatrists and Psychologists Authors: DrX Tags: Front Page Source Type: blogs
Serious Allegations against HPV Vaccine Trials Affecting Thousands of Girls Accepted by Supreme Court of India
CONCLUSION
There has been no evidence to suggest that any of the above crucial issues were ever considered by any of the organizations involved in these vaccination trials.
Time and again, according to the petition, PATH has denied that it carried out a trial in India. It insists that what it was doing was merely a post-licensure study. This explanation was unacceptable to the Indian government’s inquiry. It concluded that by whatever name PATH chooses to call its exercise, under the Indian Drugs and Cosmetics Act, it was indeed a clinical trial and all safeguards should have been observed. Yet PATH and WHO have hailed t...
Source: vactruth.com - January 8, 2013 Category: Health Medicine and Bioethics Commentators Authors: Christina England Tags: Christina England Top Stories Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Cervarix cervical cancer gardasil GlaxoSmithKline Gramya Resource Centre for Women HPV ICMR Indian Council of Medical Research NGO PATH State of Andhra Pradesh Wor Source Type: blogs
Welcome to ward 10
Welcome to your attachment on Ward 10Farewell to the old guard and welcome to the new batch. Get ready to gorge yourself on fruit from the tree of knowledge.This blog will be a reminder of your training assignments each week. In addition to the departmental teaching sessions we have three ward based events:1.Read& think :Each Tuesday there is a discussion of a subject or paper. I will usually set a paper but if you come across something which you believe we should read, I am happy to include it. Give yourself time to think.2.Two Minute talks:each Friday you will give the team a talk on a subject you have researched tha...
Source: MJM Wardrounds - August 4, 2010 Category: Universities & Medical Training Source Type: blogs
