Archive for October, 2008

Business Wire - Salix Pharmaceuticals Reports 4Q2007 and FY2007 Results

Friday, October 31st, 2008

Bowel Cleansers, XIFAXAN([R]) and Other Product Revenue Increases 34% Over 2006
Q4 and Full Year 2007 Financial Results Impacted by $34.6 Million Non-Cash Charge Related to Introduction of Generic Balsal…

OB/GYN News - Gastrointestinal agents: Part III

Saturday, October 25th, 2008

The final part of this series covers the use of infliximab, anticholinergics/antispasmodics, gastrointestinal stimulants, and anorectal preparations in pregnant and lactating women.
* Infliximab (Remicade): Infliximab is a monoclonal antibody used to treat severe Crohn’s disease and au…

Trial - Another victory over drugmakers’ FDA preemption argument.

Friday, October 24th, 2008

The Center for Constitutional Litigation (CCL) has achieved another victory against arguments that FDA labeling regulations preempt state failure-to-warn claims. (Kelly v. Wyeth, 2007 WL 1302589 (Mass. Super. Apr. 12, 2007) .)

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Clinical Psychiatry News - Drug combination for migraines deemed too risky for approval.(Pain Medicine)

Monday, October 20th, 2008

ROCKVILLE, MD. — At a meeting last month, members of the Food and Drug Administration’s Peripheral and Central Nervous System Drugs Advisory Committee agreed that the risk of tardive dyskinesia associated with the metoclopramide component of a fixed-dose combina…

Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry - A randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial of metoclopramide for the treatment of Tourette’s disorder.

Tuesday, October 14th, 2008

Tourette’s disorder, with a prevalence of 1% to 3% of children and adolescents (Robertson, 2003), is a chronic, childhood-onset neuropsychiatric illness. It is characterized by motor and vocal tics that fluctuate…

Indian Journal of Medical Research - Efficacy & tolerability of ondansetron compared to metoclopramide in dose dependent cisplatin-induced delayed emesis

Tuesday, October 7th, 2008

Background & objectives: Delayed emesis with cisplatin is a significant problem, which is often poorly controlled with conventional antiemetics. There is a relative paucity of data on the control of delayed emesis and rather inconsistent results have been reported. The present study aimed to compare the efficacy and tolerability of ondansetron versus metoclopramide in dose related grades of cisplatin-induced delayed emesis.

Business Wire - Salix Pharmaceuticals Acquires Patent-Protected Metoclopramide-Zydis

Friday, October 3rd, 2008

Zydis([R]) Technology Provides Fast-Dissolving, Patient-Friendly Formulation

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