Topic: Food and Drug Administration

Morphine Sulfate Solution Approved

Morphine Sulfate Oral Solution has been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to treat acute and chronic pain. The drug is manufactured by Ohio-based Roxane Laboratories, a unit of Boehringer Ingelheim..
Technology firms such as Xerox and IBM are weighing bids to run the online insurance exchanges for the uninsured that are part of health-overall legislation, the WSJ reports. The study found a 20% mortality benefit for current and former heavy smokers between ...
Clinical Data, Inc.) today announced the issuance of U.S. Patent No. 7,834,020 claiming the polymorphic form of vilazodone (vilazodone HCl, Form IV), a compound currently in development for the treatment of Major Depressive Disorder. "This patent is an important addition to our ...

Getting Big by Going Small

In 2006 NPS Pharmaceuticals Inc., a midsized biopharmaceutical firm, was in trouble. But in March 2006, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) asked the company to run an additional, expensive clinical trial largely because of concerns over a side effect. So ...

FDA More Cautious About Drug Safety

Regulators appear to be increasing their scrutiny of product risks after cases like the bitter debate over the diabetes pill Avandia, industry executives and experts said this week.. The Food and Drug Administration imposed severe restrictions on GlaxoSmithKine Plc's Avandia drug in ...

Trimethobenzamide

Trimethobenzamide ( Tebamide , Tigan ) is an antiemetic used to prevent nausea and vomiting . More serious adverse effects include skin rash, tremors, parkinsonism , and jaundice .Trimethobenzamide is marketed under the brand names Tebamide and Tigan , manufactured by GlaxoSmithKline ...

Omeprazole

Omeprazole (INN ) () is a proton pump inhibitor used in the treatment of dyspepsia , peptic ulcer disease (PUD), gastroesophageal reflux disease (GORD/GERD) and Zollinger-Ellison syndrome . Omeprazole is marketed as Zegerid by Santarus , Prilosec OTC by Procter & Gamble ...

Cloned Food

Though it will likely be years before any cloned food appears on the market, the FDA has approved of the sale of meat and milk from cloned animals in the United States without special labels or warnings. "F.D.A. Says Food From Cloned ...

Cloning

The controversial technique known as cloning is the creation of a genetically-identical copy of a living organism. 'I Can Clone a Human Being' The FDA approved the sale of meat from cloned animals on January 15 , 2008 . Instead of 'cloning ...

Pharming (genetics)

For pharming in internet , see pharming . Pharming is a portmanteau of farming and "pharmaceutical " and refers to the use of genetic engineering to insert gene s that code for useful pharmaceuticals into host animals or plants that would otherwise ...