noreply@blogger.com (RCoffield@fsblaw.com)
Safety experts advising the FDA have been sending up flares about various asthma drugs for several years. In 2007, a panel said GlaxoSmithKlines Serevent and Advair should carry a warning about risks to children. In 2008, experts said Serevent and Norvartis’s Foradil shouldnt be used for asthma any more.
Today, the FDA itself […]
Continued Read ...
JGrimes
An FDA advisory panel said yesterday that two drugs, Serevent and Foradil, shouldn’t be used for asthma any more, and two others, Advair and Symbicort, should. So what’s the difference between these drugs?
This morning’s New York Times gives quick overview of asthma by way of explanation. Asthma strikes when airways in the lungs […]
Continued Read ...
JGrimes
Getty Images
Teva has launched a generic of AstraZeneca’s inhaled asthma treatment for kids.
Generics maker Teva is causing headaches for another brand-name drugmaker.
AstraZeneca taking the hit on its asthma treatment Pulmicort Respules. Teva just got FDA approval of a generic version, and the Israeli company said it has started selling the medicine. AstraZeneca’s […]
Continued Read ...
JGrimes
The era of personalized medicine won’t work unless we can also find our way into the era of reliable diagnostic testing. And in the case of breast cancer — one of the diseases with good personalized drugs for certain types of tumors — the diagnostic tests aren’t working very well, the WSJ reports.
As […]
Continued Read ...
