Picato® Gel Receives EU Marketing Authorisation for Treatment of Actinic

Picato® Gel Receives EU Marketing Authorisation for Treatment of Actinic

Filed under: drug treatment news 2010

Picato® gel was approved by the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in January 2012, by the Agência Nacional de Vigilância Sanitária (ANVISA) in Brazil in July 2012 and by the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) in Australia in November 2012 …
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Novartis drug SigniforR recommended by FDA advisory committee for approval

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Basel, November 7, 2012 – The US Food and Drug Administration's (FDA) Endocrinologic and Metabolic Drugs Advisory Committee (EMDAC) has voted unanimously in support of the use of Signifor R (pasireotide) for the treatment of patients with Cushing's …
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Second most common infection in the US proving harder to treat with current

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Using an index that tracks antibiotic resistance over time, researchers found that the available arsenal of drugs used to treat UTIs are losing their overall effectiveness, with the overall share of resistant bacteria increasing by over 30% between …
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Expensive Drugs, Challenge to Tuberculosis Treatment in Nigeria

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Medical experts have warned that the trend should be quickly checked in order to forestall what they described as "imminent and total collapse of the efficacy of the available first-line drugs for TB treatment." According to Dr Taiwo Orelope, a medical …
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